[Kolab-devel] yet another way to build kolab

[Richard Bos]

Op dinsdag 25 mei 2004 12:01, schreef Timotheus Pokorra:
> Hello Richard,
>
> I find that idea interesting and good.
> I hope to experiment with it on Fedora on the weekend.

Looking forward to your experience!!  

> >However, I just found out that kolab just obtained devtool which already
> >improves the the build situation already.  I assume the latter as it would
> >otherwise not be accepted :)
>
> I am not sure if I understood it all completely.
> devtool makes configurations for OpenPKG. Is that right?

I don't know, what it can or not.  It would be nice if someone could shed some 
light on it.

> Your scripts create a configuration for all distributions where someone
> creates a file in the dist_conf directory?

This is indeed correct.  In your case just copy the file dist_conf/mandrake to 
dist_conf/fedora.  Adapt the variables in the latter and than run 
./configure --enable-dist=fedora <and otherneeded arguments>

As a first test you can look the files with the suffix .in (but not the 
Makefile.in), and diff this one that results from the your build (after 
make).   Just check if the file makes sense to you....;)

I would like to obtain the file dist_conf/fedora from you, so I can include it 
in the tarball :))

> It still requires the packages to be compiled specifically for kolab, or
> would it work with the standard rpm's of the distributions?

Besides special functionality that is needed by kolab, to my opinion native 
distribution packages should be sufficient.  
Are there any patches required to any of the other (server) packages to make 
kolab work?  One should of course adhere to the versions that are required to 
work with kolab (e.g. postfix needs to be version 2.1.0 since a week or so).

The kolab-autoconf-test-20040523-1.tar.bz2 tarball contains only the module 
server/kolab.  I assume that the module sever/perl-kolab is required to get 
kolab up and running.  Is this indeed required and are there other cvs 
modules required?  Can anyone provide an overview of which files are provided 
by a recent kolab (openpkg) rpm?

-- 
Richard Bos
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