[Dovecot] Building Dovecot RHEL RPMs with custom LDAP packages

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 01:20:22PM +0200, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
> We are (still) mainly using CentOS 5 (5.8 x86_64). As CentOS /
> RHEL 5 standard OpenLDAP packages are rather old (2.3.x), we've
> been using LTB OpenLDAP packages 
> (http://ltb-project.org/wiki/download#openldap), which get 
> installed in non-standard file system locations.

ISTM that herein lies the whole problem. Why did you not rpmbuild 
your OpenLDAP? That would have avoided all further fuss.

Another observation I can offer, unwelcome as it may be: your OS 
choice was not a good one when you want the features of recent 
software. Perhaps you should rethink that choice. You have invested 
much effort in this task.

> So, I would like to re-build Dovecot packages based on these 
> OpenLDAP libraries, esp. because I see that dovecot RPM packages 
> are built using OpenLDAP v2.3 libraries.
> 
> I am not much experienced in building RPMs and preparing spec 
> files.

And that is really more a question for a CentOS forum than here.

> In http://dl.atrpms.net/all/dovecot.spec I see:
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> BuildRequires: openldap-devel, cyrus-sasl-devel

The latter requirement seems curious to me. In what way does Dovecot 
use Cyrus SASL?
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