> On 22 May 2019, at 16:23, Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]> wrote: > > Doug Hardie wrote on 2019/05/23 00:41: > > [...] > >> 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. > > There is no dovecot2 package in the official FreeBSD repository / ports tree: > https://www.freshports.org/search.php?query=dovecot > > 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. > > > 20170807: > AFFECTS: users of mail/dovecot2 and mail/dovecot2-pigeonhole > AUTHOR: [email protected] > > Now that dovecot1 has been removed from the ports tree, dovecot2 > and dovecot2-pigeonhole have been renamed to simply dovecot and > dovecot-pigeonhole. > > pkg should handle the rename automatically, but if you run into > trouble, you can point pkg at the new origin via: > > # pkg set -o mail/dovecot2:mail/dovecot > # pkg set -o mail/dovecot2-pigeonhole:mail/dovecot-pigeonhole > > Similarly, you can point portmaster at the new location via: > > # portmaster -o mail/dovecot mail/dovecot2 > > If all else fails, just remove and reinstall the package: > > # pkg delete dovecot2 > # pkg install dovecot That was the approach I used. Worked fine. Dovecot now works properly again. > > Miroslav Lachman _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
