Re: cpu and cyrus

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Hi,

Craig White schrieb am 01.09.2011 15:44 Uhr:
> 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.
Wouldn't it be great, if someone could offer a PPA for Cyrus IMAPd for 
Ubuntu and or Debian?
I think it would really help. (I have never built a deb package myself, 
sorry.)

Oh, at least here is a PPA with 2.4.8:
https://launchpad.net/~cz.nic-labs/+archive/cyrus-imapd

Marc
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