[Kolab-devel] perl-kolab modules

[Steffen Hansen]

On Tuesday 28 June 2005 21:12, Richard Bos wrote:
> Op woensdag 22 juni 2005 00:20, schreef Steffen Hansen:
> > > The prefix is not needed anymore.  Well at least it will not be
> > > determined during runtime, but during buildtime with autoperl.
> > >
> > > $ap::config->{sbindir} e.g. is actually $prefix/bin
> >
> > I did see the patches, sorry for not being responsive. I'm out of
> > town currently, but I hope to be able to collect those patches and
> > get the autoperlized perl-kolab that is currently cvs HEAD into the
> > same workable state as the released version early next week.
>
> Hello Steffen,
>
> since the beginning of autoconfiguring kolab we have used a seperate
> directory, dist_conf, that holds the distribution date.   This is a
> bit cumbersome, as the dist_conf has to be included and distributed
> with each kolab module.  This this difficult to maintain.
>
> As perl-kolab is now more or less autoconfigured it might be a good
> idea the move the dist_conf directory to perl-kolab.  The reason is
> that perl-kolab is the first kolab module being build (and
> installed).  During the (rpm) installation the distribution specific
> file from the dist_conf directory can be installed to
> $libdir/pkgconfig/kolab.pc.  Once this file is installed it can be
> included during the build of subsequent kolab packages such kolabd
> and kolab-webadmin.  Is this feasible?

That sounds like a good idea. My promised "early this week" will be 
Thursday I hope :-)

regards
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