On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 03:18:03PM +0100, Gary Stainburn wrote:
I do have to concede that the update did update a great deal of RPM's and probably some by a number of versions. This no doubt is the reason I now have a reasonable sized number of changes I need to deal with (including keep_environment in EXIM, and journals moving on Dovecot )
Dovecot hasn't been updated since CentOS 7.2.1511 was released, as far as I can tell. Looking at the default configuration, /etc/dovecot/conf.d/10-logging.conf indicates the default is to log to syslog. Perhaps you had a custom configuration that was overwritten? The RPM shouldn't have overwritten anything in /etc/dovecot though.
As for Exim, that's packaged in EPEL, and the EPEL maintainer can bump the version mid-point-release.
For what its worth, I have some production services that rely on packages in EPEL, and I maintain a private mirror so I can push out changes after testing. I also watch the epel-package-announce list to keep on top of all the changes in EPEL.
One thing I noticed was that the latest EPEL release has this in its changelog:
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-package-announce@lists.fe...
[ 1 ] Bug #1323775 - Default /etc/exim/exim.conf does not have add_environment/keep_environment https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323775