Ross Boylan wrote on 13/06/2006 19:49: > On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 12:32 +0200, Sven Mueller wrote: > >>Well, I can at least give a quick answer on this: >>Neither 2.1 nor 2.2 differ that much from upstream that the upgrade path >>is affected. Actually, IIRC, the upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2 is usually just >>removing 2.1 and installing 2.2, since both use Berkeley DB 4.2 and the >>same config files and config format. A backup before upgrading and some >>tests after upgrading is still recommended though. >>At least it worked that way for me when I upgraded my own mailserver. > > That's a little surprising in view of the upgrade instructions at > http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/imapd/install-upgrade.html > > Although they appear to be for 2.3, they seem to imply big changes in > the default database format (from db to skiplist) for some files at the > 2.1/2.2 boundary.
Well, I guess you are talking about this paragraph, right? CR> The default database formats for the mailbox list and the seen state CR> databases has been changed to the skiplist backend. There are two ways CR> of dealing with this if you have been using the defaults. CR> CR> 1. Specify --with-mboxlist-db=berkeley and --with-seen-db=flat to CR> configure. This will instruct Cyrus to continue to use the previous CR> defaults. CR> [...] Well, if that is true, than there really is nothing to do regarding the databases. The Debian packages since at least 2.1 use --with-mboxlist-db=skiplist --with-seen-db=skiplist, so there really is no change here from Debian package 2.1.* to 2.2.13-3. > I'm glad to hear that no special conversion action is required, though I > wonder if that's too good to be true. Glancing over the upgrade readme from upstream, it reminded me of one thing you will need to do during the upgrade though: You need to run masssievec if you use sieve for anything, because cyrus21-imapd used plaintext sieve scripts while cyrus-imapd-2.2 uses precompiled bytecode files (automatically compiled when uploaded with sieveshell or an equivalent, the plaintext file is still stored on disk and is presented when downloading the script later on). Regards, Sven PS: No need to CC me, I'm subscribed to the pkg-cyrus* list which gets copies of mails to the BTS anyway. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
