How to test tzdist in Cassandane?

[Bron Gondwana]

I was hoping Ken might chime in :)

We haven't done anything with tzdist for FastMail yet.

I would say, just insert the VTIMEZONE fields.  Honestly, so long as it's under 4096 bytes total, it doesn't actually cost any more space on disk anyway.

Bron.

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015, at 05:06, rsto at paranoia.at wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am currently implementing the JMAP calendar event handlers and have a
> hard time testing them in Cassandane in combination with timezone
> references. 
> 
> In my experimental JMAP-enabled httpd, I translate a newly created JMAP
> calendar event to iCalendar and store it by use of caldav_store_resource
> (http_caldav.c). This currently works, as long as I store the VTIMEZONE
> components along with the VEVENT, but it wastes a lot of space.
> caldav_store_resource only seems to remove these redundant VTIMEZONEs
> from the enclosing VCALENDAR, if tzdist is enabled in the httpmodules.
> 
> I know how to use vzic to generate the zoneinfo dabatase, as well as how
> to enable tzdist in Cassandane's http modules. However, I can't figure
> out, how to make Cassandane use a custom zoneinfo.db and the auto
> generated one is only about 336 bytes (as opposed to a full-blown
> zoneinfo database generated from the latest Olsen database).
> 
> Is there any hook in Cassandane where I can populate the temporary
> configdir, once it has been generated but before tests are run?
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Robert


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