[Kolab-devel] kolab2 dependencies/integration

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi Corey,

Corey wrote:
> How much of the Kolab2 distribution/package consists of actual sourcecode 
> patches to the various existing components ( openldap, cyrus, postfix, etc ) 
> it uses, and how much of the distribution/package is simply configuration 
> files, installation scripts, and whatnot?

If you use the newer releases of openldap, postfix, amavisd etc. you
will only have to apply two minor patches. One to cyrus-imapd and the
other one to mod_auth_ldap.

Then there are two packages that glue the other services together:
perl-kolab and kolabd. But both can be converted to other distributions
without too much effort.

The other two kolab specific packages are two web applications which
should easily integrate into other distributions.

> How difficult would it be, now that Kolab2 has been released, to extract only 
> the Kolab specific changes/patches ( if any ), and provide a non-openpkg 
> distribution? OpenXchange does this to good effect, I don't see why Kolab do 
> the same.  Of course installation and configuration of Kolab without using 
> the openpkg tools may be difficult, but it really should be an option.

I think this is now in the hands of people that desperately want Kolab
to run on another distro to invest the time into converting the code
instead of requesting this from the kolab core team.

I am working on a Gentoo version right now. There is an overview
available here (http://www.gunnarwrobel.de/projects/Kolab.html). These
are just my notes on the conversion process and they are certainly not
complete. But maybe they help you to convert kolab to your favorite distro.

Cheers

Gunnar

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