quotas - Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier And MySQL (Debian Etch)

Hi - I've had this great setup working for quite awhile now, but, I'm afraid to apt-get upgrade because of the modified postfix, so, I've got about 90 packages out of date.

Can I just upgrade with the standard postfix if I don't care about quotas, or will that break something since the rest of my setup (MySQL, control files, etc) expects or relies on the patched postfix?

If I can't just upgrade to the std postfix, where do I find up to date patches for the current postfix source?

Thanks for all the great howto's and your support here in the forum

 

http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8586&highlight=apt-pinning

 

OK, first I feel like a n00b for not finding any of those, and thank you for the pointer.

But, the second part of my question was ''if I don't care about quota's can I just upgrade, or will that break my setup because of possible quota changes elsewhere in other files / parts of the install "?

Thanks

 

I've read all the references to pinning and I must be doing something wrong. I'm running 2.3.8

server:~> sudo postconf -d | grep mail_version
mail_version = 2.3.8

Here is my preferences file

server:~> cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: postfix*
Pin: version 2.3.8
Pin-Priority: 1001

but when I run apt-get upgrade it looks like it is still going to upgrade postfix....

server:~> sudo apt-get -d upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
clamav clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam spamassassin
The following packages will be upgraded:
apache2 apache2-doc apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common bind9-host
clamav-base debconf debconf-i18n dnsutils grub initramfs-tools initscripts
libapache2-mod-php5 libbind9-0 libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libclamav4 libdns22
libfreetype6 libgd2-xpm libisc11 libisccc0 libisccfg1 libkadm55 libkrb5-dev libkrb53
liblwres9 libmysqlclient15-dev libmysqlclient15off libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0
libpq-dev libpq4 libsnmp-base libsnmp9 libtiff4 libxml2 libxslt1.1
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 locales mysql-client mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common mysql-server
mysql-server-5.0 openssh-client openssh-server php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common
php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-pspell
php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl phpmyadmin postfix
postfix-doc postfix-mysql proftpd selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted sysv-rc sysvinit
sysvinit-utils tzdata
78 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 119MB of archives.
After unpacking 2582kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

what am I doing wrong?
Thanks

 

Yes.

Did you run

Code:

apt-get update

after your changes?

 

yes, see below. and it still looks like it is going to upgrade postfix. i'd love to know how to hold it. thanks.

server:~> sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release.gpg [386B]
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch Release
Hit http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile Release
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Packages
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/main Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org etch/main Sources
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources/DiffIndex
Ign http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/contrib Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/non-free Packages/DiffIndex
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Packages
Hit http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/main Packages
Hit http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/main Sources
Hit http://security.debian.org etch/updates/contrib Sources
Hit http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile/non-free Packages
Fetched 3B in 1s (2B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

server:~> sudo apt-get -d upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
clamav clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam spamassassin
The following packages will be upgraded:
apache2 apache2-doc apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apache2.2-common bind9-host
clamav-base debconf debconf-i18n dnsutils grub initramfs-tools initscripts
libapache2-mod-php5 libbind9-0 libc6 libc6-dev libc6-i686 libclamav4 libdns22
libfreetype6 libgd2-xpm libisc11 libisccc0 libisccfg1 libkadm55 libkrb5-dev libkrb53
liblwres9 libmysqlclient15-dev libmysqlclient15off libpcre3 libpcre3-dev libpcrecpp0
libpq-dev libpq4 libsnmp-base libsnmp9 libtiff4 libxml2 libxslt1.1
linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 locales mysql-client mysql-client-5.0 mysql-common mysql-server
mysql-server-5.0 openssh-client openssh-server php-pear php5 php5-cli php5-common
php5-curl php5-dev php5-gd php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mhash php5-mysql php5-pspell
php5-recode php5-snmp php5-sqlite php5-tidy php5-xmlrpc php5-xsl phpmyadmin postfix
postfix-doc postfix-mysql proftpd selinux-policy-refpolicy-targeted sysv-rc sysvinit
sysvinit-utils tzdata
78 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 119MB of archives.
After unpacking 2582kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n

 

Please try

Code:

sudo apt-get upgrade

(without -d).

 

ok I ran it w/o -d and even though it stated it was updating and looked like it did, afterwards postconf showed it was still 2.3.8.

thanks