kolab-utils

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Sunday, September 16, 2012 05:44:51 AM Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> On Saturday, September 15, 2012 11:17:25 AM Thomas Spuhler wrote:
> > Has anybody been able to build kolab-utils
> > 
> > It requires (KdepimLibs 4.9.50 REQUIRED) or 4.10
> > Current versions available in the distros is 4.9.1 (it was jsut released
> > a couple weeks ago)
> > Bug # 1007 declined
> 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> kolab-utils includes a freebusy generator / aggregator that uses the Cyrus
> IMAP administrator credentials listed in the [cyrus-imap] section of
> /etc/kolab/kolab.conf, to log in as the user for which Free/Busy
> information is generated.
> 
> In order to do so, it depends on a specific capability in kdepim-libs
> (iirc), that allows kolab-freebusyd to set the authorization name to the
> user.
> 
> This function is only available in kdepim >= 4.9.50.
> 
> Alternatively, for platforms that do not have kdepim >= 4.9.50 (frankly, at
> the time of this writing, that is virtually all of them), 
I don't expect Mageia 3 will have it when it's released earlier next year
> we have
> libcalendaring, which is a backport fork of the latest kdepim libraries in
> order to provide these capabilities and functions. We currently distribute
> this package for Fedora 16, 17, 18, Rawhide and Enterprise Linux 6 and
> compile 

>libkolab 
good to know. 

>and kolab-utils against it.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
> 
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Jeroen
Thanks a lot for these explanations. This makes packaging easier
-- 
Best regards
Thomas Spuhler