RPM Upgrade Nightmare

[Chris Dos]

I forgot to mention that I got the SASL rpm's from your site as well.  I 
installed them and everything seem to go okay.  The Cyrus-SASL rpms from 
RH 8.0 look to be the same as yours.

Do you have any ideas on what would be a good way to move the mail 
directories from /var/spool/imap/user to /var/spool/imap/a-z and then 
have Cyrus pick them up and run with them.  Or perhaps, there might be a 
   way to convert the data that is in /var/imap so it works correctly in 
/var/lib/imap?

I have about eight installations that use 2.0.16 and I'd like to be able 
to come up with a smooth upgrade to I can get them to the 2.1.x series 
and then just use your rpms instead of Ramiro's which haven't been 
upgraded in some time.

	Chris

Simon Matter wrote:
> Tarjei Huse schrieb:
> 
>>>Boy, what a nightmare this turned out to be.
>>
>>Yep. It aint easy :)
>>
>>>I've been running the cyrus-imapd-2.0.16 rpms developed by Ramiro which
>>>can be found here:
>>>http://rmorales.modwest.com/rpms/cyrus-imapd/
>>>
>>>and I figured it was time to upgrade to the 2.1.* series, so I got the
>>>source rpm cyrus-imapd-2.1.10-3.src.rpm developed by Simon Matter from here:
>>>http://home.teleport.ch/simix/
>>
>>At this point, how much did you bother to read the docs and check that things were
> 
> 
> cyrus-sasl 2.x is needed. RPMs for RH 7.3 can be found on my webpage
> too.
>  ready? I just did a similar upgrade, and I tried reading the docs, but
> still. There were a lot of hassles. Here's my tips:
> 
>>a) Maybe use RH's postfix rpms to start with? I think they got sasl support, and that seems to be your only requirement.b) Install and move your user db before you start with Cyrus.
> 
> 
> Well, at least for SMTP AUTH, RedHat's rpms don't work with SASL2
> because they didn't patch the right way.
> 
> 
>>c) Simon, would you mind pointing this out on your fine webpage?
>>
>>>The RPMS have a difference in where they store the config directories:
>>>2.0.16 keeps it's configs in /var/imap
>>>2.1.10-3 keeps it's configs in /var/lib/imap
> 
> 
> I changed some paths to comply with FHS. You're right, I may mention
> this on the webpage.
> 
> 
>>d) This as well:
>>
>>>And how directory structure the mails box are located:
>>>2.0.16 keeps the files under /var/spool/imap/user
>>>2.1.10-3 keeps files under /var/spool/imap/a-z
>>
>>I belive that what you need to do is to use the rehash script found in /usr/libexec/cyrus I ran that a cuple of times (if someone might supply Chris with the correct way to rehash that would be nice.)
>>
>>
>>>In the end, I couldn't get the new cyrus rpms to find my mail boxes.
>>
>>This is probably related to the /var/imap vs /var/lib/imap tingy. I also had a BIG hassle with getting my different indexfiles in /var/lib/imap to work.
>>
>>I suggest you set of some time to work on that. Remember to set logging to full when you start so you know where to look. Also read through the man pages for the ctl_* commands found in /usr/libexec/cyrus.
>>
>>I solved my problems with the indexes by setting all to skiplist and recompiling, but that was on RH8.0. I'm not sure, but I think you need to recompile Cyrus if you change the db type, so be prepared for some simple .spec file hacking.
>>
>>e)
>>I do not think you need db4 for 2.1. when you use 7.3 - db3 is ok.
>>
>>I hope this might help you,
>>Tarjei
>>
>>>gave up and eventually got the old rpms working again and I needed to
>>>rebuild my database to get it to work again with db3.  I'm sure I made a
>>>few mistakes along the way so I'd like to find out how to properly
>>>migrate to the new cyrus rpms.  Any thoughts, hints, or ideas would be
>>>greatly appreciated.  Thank you.
>>>
>>>      Chris
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