Upgrade on Suse 10.3 success

[Carsten Burghardt]

Hi Skip,


> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Carsten Burghardt
> <carsten at cburghardt.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> after a lot of tests on a virtual system I finally upgraded my
>> productive Kolab server to 2.2.1 with the Suse packages.
>> Short description:
>> - Save ldap data according to readme (slapcat)
>> - rckolab stop
>> - add Kolab devel (see http://en.opensuse.org/Kolab) and Perl devel
>> (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/perl/openSUSE_10.3)  
>> installation
>> sources
>> - update all Kolab, Horde, PHP and Perl packages with Yast
>> - restore .rpmnew files from /etc/kolab/templates (if you made changes)
>> - do the same for Horde if needed
>> - restore ldap data according to readme (slapadd)
>> - rcldap start
>> - kolabconf -n
>> - rckolab start
>> - change ownership of Horde config dirs and files to wwwrun
>>
>> That's it. So far I tested email, calendar, tasks, contacts and syncml
>> support, all work. I have not tested freebusy and shared calendars yet.
>>
>> I am currently not able to save the Horde config as administrator
>> because this replaces the __FILE__ macros with an actual path but that
>> does not seem to work as Horde can not find the database anymore.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Carsten
>>
>>
>
> I've VERY interested in this, I'd tried a few times, I'm using SUSE
> 10.2 and "versions" in the web interface gives me this output:
>
> perl-kolab-5.8.7-30.8
> kolab-2.1.0-31.1
> kolab-resource-handlers-2.1.0-10.7
> kolab-webadmin-2.1.0-5.7

There are no packages provided for 10.2 so you will need at least 10.3.

> I would love the "Long Description" if you have the time.  I haven't
> had the time to mess with it in a while and currently it's working.  I
> vaguely remember getting some annotations.db errors and I thought I'd
> read that the DB format had changed, now I'm thinking that it's likely
> I wasn't following the proper steps.

To be honest that is the long list. There were no other steps. All the  
experiments I had to do was to find the correct sequence and avoid  
problems along the way.

> I have however successfully migrated the data and mail to a fresh 10.3
> install, but a huge issue I have with that is that we are using Toltec
> and per Joon, there is no way to 'copy' the Folder UID's, meaning that
> any shared folders would come in as new or duplicate the messages
> already contained within them on the outlook clients.
>
> What clients are you using?

I am using Horde and Thunderbird.



Carsten