Am 18.07.2024 um 11:45:19 Uhr schrieb Fabian Pack: > Now I am trying to figure out what the "most supported" way of > installing a recent cyrus-imapd is. Many projects have either > upstream packages or some preferred downstream distribution, but I > can't figure this out about cyrus. I recommend using the version that comes with your OS. Compiling is possible, but will be much more work, than using dnf/apt. > RedHat-derivatives have a very old version (naturally), Ubuntu LTS > has 3.8.2, which is missing a CVE fix (and it is in universe and as > such not really LTS supported). Debian stable has 3.6.x and in > backports is 3.8.1, which suggests that it doesn't get updated > regularly? Even Fedora has 3.8.1 for some reason? Debian sometimes backports important fixes, although you might like a rolling-release distro in your case. > I wonder, is the recommended way to set up current cyrus to compile > from source? Though the threads on this list suggest that this is not > the main way to do it? I'd appreciate any suggestions or best > practices. Ideally I'd like a setup where I can upgrade to 3.10 > easily, so if e.g. Ubuntu LTS stays on 3.8.x until the next LTS > release in 4 years that would be a suboptimal choice for me. Then don't choose LTS systems. They will do exactly that and most of the time bugfixes won't be backported. -- Gruß Marco ------------------------------------------ Cyrus: Info Permalink: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/Tb437f816807ec9ed-M85180e49a7df0f9ebaab0f74 Delivery options: https://cyrus.topicbox.com/groups/info/subscription
