Re: Moving from 2.4.17 (CentOS 7) to 3.0.7 (RHEL 8)

  ----- Message from Jason Tibbitts <[email protected]> ---------
   Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 13:05:56 -0500
   From: Jason Tibbitts <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Moving from 2.4.17 (CentOS 7) to 3.0.7 (RHEL 8)
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>>>>>> simon  <[email protected]> writes:
>> On Tuesday, March 16, 2021, at 12:21 AM, Javier Angulo wrote:
>>> AFAIK RHEL packager renamed it to cyr_quota
>> Why do they do things like that...
>
> I did the renaming when cyrus-imapd was initially updated to version 3
> in Fedora, precisely because the command name is conflicting.  RHEL
> inherited that packaging.
>
> Historically cyrus-imapd contains a number of conflicting names for
> various things, which seems to have been tolerated because the
> executables are often not installed into the usual paths for
> executables.  Things like quota, restore and fetchnews.  A number of
> manpages have to additionally be renamed into an "8cyrus" section
> (because otherwise you get conflicts on, say, httpd.8 even though the
> httpd executable itself isn't installed into a usual executable path).
>
> In any case, cyr_quota and other renaming were used only after
> consultation with the Cyrus developers.  My understanding was that they
> intended to eventually make that renaming official upstream, but because
> I'm no longer really involved in Cyrus packaging I do not yet know if
> that has happened.
> - J<

----- End message from Jason Tibbitts <[email protected]> -----

Thanks Jason, that makes sense - it just caught me by surprise when  
the commands I had used in Cyrus 2.4 were not there anymore, and  
nothing obvious was documented... after getting the info on this  
thread I then looked at the file list for the package and it all then  
made sense. It is still counter-intuitive though to do e.g. "man  
cyr_quota" and be presented with a page headed "quota".

At the very least perhaps a comment on the cyrus-imapd upgrade and RH  
package pages would be useful.

Simon.
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