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Date:      Wed, 22 May 2019 17:44:31 -0700
From:      Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Dovecot packages
Message-ID:  <258E1160-1D91-4E88-B547-452C079DB4B0@mail.sermon-archive.info>
In-Reply-To: <fcd12a15-ca9a-60e8-2dc1-5da54a898f10@quip.cz>
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> On 22 May 2019, at 16:23, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:
>=20
> Doug Hardie wrote on 2019/05/23 00:41:
>=20
> [...]
>=20
>> Unless you notice this interesting anomaly, you can get easily burned =
like I did.  I would recommend that either the dovecot2 package be =
deleted, or at least kept current with the dovecot package.
>=20
> There is no dovecot2 package in the official FreeBSD repository / =
ports tree: https://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=3Ddovecot
>=20
> You have very stale packages on your machines and you didn't read =
instructions in UPDATING file of "pkg updating" command:

Thats quite interesting.  When I run pkg updating command, the first =
entry is dated 20160616.

pkg-1.10.5_5                   Package manager

# freebsd-version -ku
12.0-RELEASE-p3
12.0-RELEASE-p3

brain# pkg update
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
brain# pkg upgrade
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking for upgrades (0 candidates): 100%
Processing candidates (0 candidates): 100%
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
Your packages are up to date.



Same results on all my machines.


>=20
>=20
> 20170807:
>  AFFECTS: users of mail/dovecot2 and mail/dovecot2-pigeonhole
>  AUTHOR: adamw@FreeBSD.org
>=20
>  Now that dovecot1 has been removed from the ports tree, dovecot2
>  and dovecot2-pigeonhole have been renamed to simply dovecot and
>  dovecot-pigeonhole.
>=20
>  pkg should handle the rename automatically, but if you run into
>  trouble, you can point pkg at the new origin via:
>=20
>  # pkg set -o mail/dovecot2:mail/dovecot
>  # pkg set -o mail/dovecot2-pigeonhole:mail/dovecot-pigeonhole
>=20
>  Similarly, you can point portmaster at the new location via:
>=20
>  # portmaster -o mail/dovecot mail/dovecot2
>=20
>  If all else fails, just remove and reinstall the package:
>=20
>  # pkg delete dovecot2
>  # pkg install dovecot

That was the approach I used.  Worked fine.  Dovecot now works properly =
again.

>=20
> Miroslav Lachman




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