Cyrus IMAPD 2.4: Release early, release often

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Thu Nov 18 18:44:33 UTC 2010


On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Ondřej Surý wrote:
> cyrus-imapd-2.4 has been uploaded to experimental.
> 
> That said, we still don't have a clear upgrade path from 2.2 to 2.4.
> Upgrades from 2.3 to 2.4 will not be supported at all.

FWIW, I just went through 2.1 -> 2.3 and it is reasonably painless.

2.2->2.3 and 2.2->2.4 (and 2.3->2.4) are mostly automatic, BUT when they
break you're screwed, so you need a backup of the old data, plus a fixed
Cyrus to re-do the in-place upgrade...

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  Henrique Holschuh



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