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 ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://www.cyrusimap.org/ List Archives/Info: http://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/info-cyrus/
