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

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi Bernhard,

Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de> writes:

> 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.

I'm probably having a blind spot here, sorry :) I checked the CVS log
from martin between 2006 and 2008 but wasn't able to pinpoint the
corresponding commit.

Since I had the impression that Richard had similar problems could you
help us and locate the required changes/code specifically? 

Thanks!

Cheers,

Gunnar

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