[Kolab-devel] kolab and slapd-2.4.x

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Friday 22 February 2008 10:44, Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> Richard Bos <ml at radoeka.nl> writes:
> > Op Thursday 21 February 2008 21:20:59 schreef Mike Gabriel:
> >> > > yes. the communication betweem slapd (LDAP) and kolabd utilize the
> >> > > replica feature (slurpd) of slapd < 2.4.x. there will be no slurpd
> >> > > anymore in slapd
> >> > >
> >> > > >= 2.4.x.

Please check the issue tracker before opening new reports.
Parts of this have been discussed in 
kolab/issue 1755 (Openldap>=2.4.6 switches from slurpd to syncrepl)
already.

> >> > Actually this is not such a big deal. Back then when we created the
> >> > first implementation of kolabd using the replication mechanism was an
> >> > innovative idea to implement a notification mechanism.
> >> >
> >> > Today the clean solution is much simpler and actually already
> >> > implemented.
> >> >
> >> > E.g. my implementation of FDS integration (done in march last year for
> >> > a Kolab Konsortium customer) for kolabd uses persistent LDAP searches
> >> > which is standard compliant, more scalable, more reliable, needs less
> >> > resources and better in every respect.

> >> GREAT. available in kolab-2.2, i suppose?

Yes it is, but ...
We need to switch replication setup between the openldap to this mechanism as 
well and make the new concept work in the implementation (it eat memory, see 
the issue tracker for details or other problems).

> > /ME still curious: what to be changed or added to kolab to make this
> > work?
> >
> > @Martin: was that a private version or is the code in kolab cvs?
>
> /me curious too :)

Public all in CVS and the trackers.

> I heard the rumor that this code exists before but I did not see it
> yet. It is definitely not in CVS. I don't think it will be part of
> Kolab-2.2 because switching to openldap-2.4 would be too much for that
> version. The underlying OpenPKG is actually already openldap-2.4 only.

There is all that there is in CVS.
I am not aware of Martin having written more code that is not in there.

Bernhard

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