On Wed, 2011-08-31 at 16:34 -0400, John Madden wrote: > >> So annoying that the stable release of debian isn't supported > >> anymore. It seems like if you wait so long to release the stable > >> version that it isn't supported anymore, it sort of defeats the > >> purpose. > > > > Debian have been staying at 2.2 rather than moving up to 2.3 through > > two stable releases now. There is a limit to how long you can hold > > on to the past. Cyrus 2.3.0 was released in December 2005. > > There's a lesson here that I learned from the OpenLDAP folks that is > re-enforced with Cyrus (and many other packages): You can't rely on your > OS distributor beyond a certain scale. RHEL's OpenLDAP packages are > fine a thousand objects, no good at all for a million. Some of the > problems are too complex: imagine Debian delivering a functioning Murder > out of the box or Red Hat combining the right version of BerkeleyDB with > the right version of OpenLDAP. No thanks. > > It's well worth your time to maintain your own compiles and even > packages of Cyrus because the package maintainers can't keep up. ---- indeed though interestingly enough, OpenLDAP on Ubuntu is current. Once I saw that ubuntu was still featuring cyrus 2.2.13, I didn't even bother. For Ubuntu LTS, grab source for cyrus and compile - worked great. Only had to get a reasonably suitable sysv script to start/stop. Those using CentOS/Scientific Linux/RHEL should probably just rebuild Simon's excellent SRC rpms for cyrus though... patched for 'autocreate' and simple. Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
