[Kolab-devel] Native server package, RPM for CentOS, RHEL

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am Freitag 24 Februar 2012 11:23:06 schrieb Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab 
Systems):
> > I wonder, what is the status of the mentioned packages in regards of
> > stability and usefulness? As I see it el5?
>
> This branch (product series 2.4, platform el5) probably runs the
> largest deployment to date. As such, its usefulness is tremendous, I
> would say, and its stability could be argued to be implied.

A very good! 
This means we could announce it to a wider audience
with a few warning that you have outlined in your email.
Basically that this 2.4 series is a bit between 2.3 and 3.0 server
and probably best used for new installations currently.

> That said, however, it was created with this one deployment in mind,
> specifically. It is not set up in line with what one would expect from a
> traditional Kolab Groupware deployment. It is breaking many Kolab
> traditions, if you will.
>
> For this particular deployment -the reason for a series 2.4, really-
> for example, user provisioning is done completely differently from what
> we're used to, Puppet configuration management prevailed over
> template-based generating of configuration files, and therefore its
> setup routines and configuration management have not evolved with the
> rest of the software.


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