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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