kolab2dist conversion

[Richard Bos]

Hello,

I have been working on a script that adapts the paths in kolab's template 
files, and some executables.  The script is a beginning to adapt kolab to 
your distributor's apache, openldap, cyrus, etc application paths.  Hopefully 
it is usefull for some.  It is of course not sufficient to adapt the files 
and paths names only to have it running on other distribution. 

The tarred script can be found at:
http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/kolab/

It must be installed in the kolab directory that holds the files: kolab.spec,  
Makefile,  rc.kolab among other.  Unpack the tarball in this directory.

If the script is executed without arguments the processed files are configured 
to be used with the openpkg distribution.  The following files are processed:

kolab/kolab_bootstrap
kolab/workaround.sh
kolab/httpd.conf.template
kolab/main.cf.template
kolab/slapd.conf.template
kolab/proftpd.conf.template
kolab/kolabd
kolab/cyrus.conf.template
kolab/imapd.conf.template
kolab/kolab_sslcert.sh
kolab/legacy.conf.template
kolab/amavisd.conf.template
kolab/clamav.conf.template
Replacing bin-, sbin and etc/kolab directories

At the moment the following config files are available:

kolab> ./kolab2dist --show-dist
autotools  mandrake  suse

The definitions may not be accurate and the results should be checked 
carefully!  

The information for the mandrake configuration file has been taken from the 
Mandrake rpm spec file.  So it should be possible to replace a big part of 
that spec file by this script ;)

What I basically did is, to specify variables for all the files and paths that 
are listed in the Mandrake kolab spec file.  The variables are defined 
initially to support the openpkg distribution.  However with the --dist 
argument a configuration file is sourced in overwriting the variables.

The configuration file template can be obtained with --template:

kolab> ./kolab2dist --template
#BEGIN#####################################################################
#                                                                         #
# Define variables that are derived from the autools package              #
#                                                                         #

[skipped]

emailserver_socket=
emailserver_confdir=
emailserver_imapdir=
emailserver_imapspooldir=
emailserver_sievedir=
emailserver_sasl_conffile=
emailserver_usr=
emailserver_grp=
emailserver_mail_usr=

[skipped]

Now fill in the template and run the script and the kolab is adapted....

I'm curious to know whether the script is usefull for some.  There are of 
course still bugs in it, among them some paths that are probably missed.  
However, as said in the beginning it is a start....  Let me know the 
errors ;)


-- 
Richard Bos
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