[Kolab-devel] Extending Kolab

[Marcus Hüwe]

On 2008-05-19 08:42:22 +0200, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de> writes:
> 
> > Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:
> >
> 
> [...snip...]
> 
> >
> >>  Of course I am still looking forward to your proposal. :)
> >
> > Will come in few weeks ;)
> 
> A while ago I mentioned that I am working on a suggestion on how to
> solve Kolab server extensions. By now I am convinced that this
> solution would work fine and so it is time to discuss this in detail.
> 
> 
> Let me give you some background first:
> 
> The native Kolab Server port to Gentoo has always been problematic in
> two areas: 
> 
>  1) The Kolab specific patches to imap c-client, php, as well
>     as cyrus-imapd 
> 
>  2) kolabconf.
> 
> The patch situation has been resolved by now but kolabconf is still
> something that simply does not work on Gentoo.
> 
> The Kolab server has been established for OpenPKG because the
> developers were able to control many crucial parameters within the
> OpenPKG system while still being able to install the server on many
> different base distributions. A crucial point about OpenPKG is the
> ability to specifically fix the version of a package. The user is
> bound to use the package version prepared by the developers and the
> installed package will provide all required features.
> 
> Concerning that point Gentoo is living on the other side of the
> spectrum. As a more developer oriented distributions it allows its
> users to choose between different versions of a package and provides
> the means to easily switch package features on or off.
> 
> It is a dangerous game to configure such a system with kolabconf since
> it is agnostic of package versions and assumes that the base system is
> providing a defined set of features.
> 
Hmm can you elaborate this a bit more? Why do you think it's dangerous
to use kolabconf in combination with Gentoo?
Are you talking about cases where the user decides to disable feature
"xy" during the build of let's say ldap and the static slapd.conf still
has the settings for feature "xy"?


Marcus