Subject: Re: ports/62690: Postfix with LDAP support fails to compile

[Sergey A. Osokin]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 02:22:29PM +0100, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> Sergey A. Osokin wrote:
> 
> >[...]
> >
> >I would like to commit following patch, its also fix build problem
> >with openldap20, please review and approve.
> 
> FYI: OpenLDAP 2.0 is deprecated and scheduled for removal May 2004.
> OpenLDAP 1.2 will be removed April 2004 and shouldn't be used under any
> circumstances (it is marked FORBIDDEN).
> 
> Generally users expect that when they set WANT_OPENLDAP_VER in make.conf(5),
> pkgtools.conf(5) or on the command line that this is honored by ports.
> The rationale is that different versions of OpenLDAP can't coexist and
> it is therefore easy for the user to choose her preferred version.
> 
> Furthermore WANT_OPENLDAP_VER has a default in bsd.port.mk, which makes it
> easy to switch versions and build non-conflicting packages. Currently
> OpenLDAP 2.1 is the default, but I plan to switch to 2.2 if it is stable
> enough and eventually the OpenLDAP project ceases support for 2.1.
> 
> I am aware that this doesn't fit well in the scheme how postfix 
> configuration works now, but it would be nice if we could have a
> consistent ports tree, at last in this regard.

OK, I see your point of view.  Do you have any patches against current
version of postfix port?

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