personal opinion.....

[Joe Auty]

On Oct 28, 2005, at 4:52 PM, Martin Konold wrote:

>
>
> Yes, you can apply our patches to the stock source code. Actually  
> we put very
> significant effort in making these as easy as possible. We even  
> seperated the
> Kolab patches from the stock OpenPKG rpms in every respect.
>

Actually, what I meant was running the stock source code without any  
patches required, or doing whatever it takes to accomplish what I'm  
attempting to describe (see below).

>
>> My problem is not with the format as much as it is conflicting with
>> my existing services I count on.
>>
>
> Can you please more specific?
>

Sure!

I run FreeBSD, and before discovering Kolab I was already running  
Apache, LDAP, and most of the other services required by Kolab. These  
services were built from the FreeBSD ports, and I appreciate being  
able to update each port individually at my leisure, and I appreciate  
the portupgrade script notifying me when it is time to upgrade.

I don't want to tear down my existing services and rebuild them with  
Kolab. I want to still control the upgrades of these ports through  
FreeBSD ports. I want to drop Kolab into my existing infrastructure.






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