Upgrading cyrus

Patrick Goetz pgoetz at mail.utexas.edu
Tue Sep 14 21:00:54 UTC 2010


On 09/12/2010 02:28 AM, Benjamin Seidenberg wrote:
>
> That may be true for large organizations, but misses TONS of use cases,
> from individuals with personal servers to non-profits to schools to
> places where admins can choose to spend their time more easily than they
> can requisition new hardware to.... Additionally, it fails to take in to
> account a variety of reasons for upgrading - tracking security updates,
> wanting new features, etc. Also, I think that doing a message sync via
> imap is significantly more complex for a user than using a pre-written
> script to update their database.
>

Seems reasonable.  The redhat script Jeroen van Meeuwen alluded to seems 
like a good starting point for a way to update cyrus databases for an 
upgrade, but I'm currently not sure this will work for people (like me) 
upgrading from 2.1.X, as it seems the db files have changed.




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