From: mouss (mlist.onlyfree.fr)
Date: Fri Jul 27 2007 - 16:56:52 CDT

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M. Fioretti wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I would like to install Postfix 2.3 or 2.4 (I need support for SASL
> authentication via Dovecot) on a Centos 4.4 server.

This is irrelevant here, but you may want to consider
- enabling centosplus
- "yum update" to go to 4.5.

> Compiling from
> source is not an option for several reasons.
>
> Now, I have already found rpm packages at
> http://postfix.wl0.org/en/available-packages/.
>

you can setup your own yum repository. but this will not help a lot. I
had many packages in a local yum repo because they were not available
(mysql 5, php 5, ...). but when newer versions became available in
centos site, this created a problem. I have one box I cannot easily
update because it is using a recent version of subversion, but some
centos packages want old dependencies (and a long time ago, I fought
against a centos wanting some httpd-mn or something like that). rpm is
deeply broken, and yum doesn't help enough.

> I wanted to ask, however, if there is also a yum-capable solution. I
> would really prefer to build a system which can be updated
> semi-automatically, without manually tracking and downloading rpms
> from several websites.
>
> So, is there any yum repo suitable for postfix >= 2.3 on Centos 4.4?
>
>

not that I know of. and even if there were one, you cannot enable
repositories just because they have a package you want. they may also
have packages that break your system.

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