Updating Kolab

[robert78]

Hi,

I wonder what is the standard / safest way to update Kolab.
There seem to be a few ebuilds in Portage which are newer than the ones in the Kolab overlay:

~ # emerge -p postfix

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] mail-mta/postfix-2.3.2 [2.2.10-r20] USE="-cdb% -dovecot-sasl% -mysql*"

So,
 emerge -u world
is probably not the way to go.

 ~ # emerge -upv world | grep "\[1\]"
[ebuild     U ] dev-php/horde-3.1.3 [3.1.1] 5,110 kB [1]
[ebuild     U ] dev-php/PEAR-Net_IMAP-1.0.3-r2 [1.0.3-r1] 0 kB [1]
[ebuild     U ] net-mail/kolab-resource-handlers-20060829 [20060523] 86 kB [1]
[ebuild     U ] dev-perl/perl-kolab-20060829 [20060523] 73 kB [1]
[ebuild     U ] net-mail/kolab-webadmin-20060829 [20060523] USE="-horde" 223 kB [1]
[ebuild     U ] net-mail/kolabd-20060829 [20060523] USE="spam -dav -horde" 144 kB [1]
 [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/kolab2

Is it OK to update just those packages?
Will I have to bootstrap after an update (I'd like to avoid that, as this is a production server and I had to edit a few templates manually)?

TIA,
 Robert

[Gunnar Wrobel]

This is a problem that was introduced with the latest postfix update in the portage tree. The original install instructions required you to add

Code:

mail-mta/postfix ~x86

while the latest change now requires you to set

Code:

=mail-mta/postfix-2.2.10-r20 ~x86

While this was fixed in the installation instructions I realize that it was quite easy to miss that change. There is a need for a central mailing list that provides announcements and keeps track of changes for the different web applications that are currently provided for Kolab/Gentoo.

Will hopefully be fixed soon.

[robert78]

I see.
So, all I need to do is update all packages from the overlay and restart kolab?

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Yes, updating the overlay ebuilds is sufficient.

But to stop "emerge" from suggesting to upgrade postfix you should also add

Code:

=mail-mta/postfix-2.2.10-r20 ~x86

in your /etc/portage/package.keywords.