URGENT: Naming conflict in Cyrus-IMAP 2.2 vs. leafnode 1.9

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon May 3 15:15:02 EDT 2004


On Mon, 3 May 2004, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> > I appreciate the problems with the namespace conflict, but if we were to
> > do this for all of our binaries every time a conflict was discovered, I
>
> There is one answer for that, which is to prefix everything that is not a
> service with cyr_ for 2.3, and have all services installed in a separate
> directory (which is already possible, but it is not strongly suggested or
> anything).  After all, services are to be run by master, only...

The problem is more the man pages, really (as it is in this case).

FWIW, Bug 2425 is open now to address this.  I'm not sure when a good time
to do so is, but certainly 2.3 is the earliest possible time.

-Rob

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