[bug#43347] [PATCH] services: dovecot: Do not require dovecot to be globally installed.

[Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>]

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Oh no, the reason for the symlink I think is that module packages could be installed in the same profile as dovecot to complement the directory. If you symlink it to dovecot, you can't install additional modules.

Instead, I would suggest to add an option to declare the set of additional modules. Create a union of this set of modules and dovecot itself, and symlink /etc/dovecot/modules to it (or confiqure dovecot to look into it directly, without using any global state, which is better in my opinion).

Le 11 septembre 2020 15:40:06 GMT-04:00, Pierre Langlois <pierre.langlois@gmx.com> a écrit :
>Hello Guix!
>
>I noticed recently my little dovecot mailserver failed to boot, I
>tracked it down to our service installing a symlink as:
>
>  /etc/dovecot/modules -> /run/current-system/profile/lib/dovecot
>
>However, I didn't have the dovecot package globally installed, the
>service does not install it AFAICT.
>
>We could extend the service to install dovecot into the global profile,
>however instead we can just symlink /etc/dovecot/modules to the dovecot
>package in the store directly.
>
>Here's the patch to do that! WDYT?
>
>Thanks,
>Pierre

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