[Kolab-devel] Making perl-kolab a real library

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi!

perl-kolab is intended to be a Perl library and only installs files
within your perl library location.

But for a library perl-kolab knows way too much:

 - it "knows" that there is a kolabconf program
 - it also requires a sendmail binary with a fixed location
 - it expects certain kolab configuration files in fixed locations 

In principle perl-kolab fully depends on the kolabd package at the
moment. While kolabd also depends on perl-kolab.

I consider this a problem for both packaging and maintenance of the
code and would like to split all unnecessary knowledge from the
perl-kolab package into the kolabd package which would result in a
real perl library.

This would not only resolve the circular dependency but would also
allow to get rid of the current configure script within perl-kolab so
we can just use the standard perl mechanism for installing packages. 

I attach a patch that demonstrates the necessary changes roughly. It
is only a draft and has not yet been tested.

In addition I would like to split kolabconf into its own package. It
is an important tool for the Kolab server and I think it makes sense
to develop it also as a specific perl package with its own rpm.

I'd be happy about comments. If people agree I'd open a bug for this
and slowly convert perl-kolab as described. 

Cheers,

Gunnar

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