Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution and ldap contacts
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 11:17 +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: Hi, I've been trying in my spare time to dip my feet in the LDAP contacts backend because, well, there's lots of stuff that it does wrong for me to the point where it's close to unusable in my real life use. I'm starting small, and I have some questions that I've already asked various people IRL or on IRC, but nobody seems to have a good idea, so I thought I'd join and ask here instead. 1) Does anyone know why the LDAP backend first does an anonymous bind (which my servers for obvious reasons don't allow) to decide if the server is up at all ? I don't see the point of not using the credentials configured here. If the credentials are there already, it may not make sense to do a anon bind. But I donno much history behind the code there. 2) Is there anything in evolution checeking the GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_CallStatus returned from some of the calls ? It is hugely annoying to not have any clue at all *why* a contact backend fails. It got slightly better in evo 2.22 (which shows Error loading addressbook in the widget you get when you click To/CC/Bcc) but not by much. Where should I go dig in the Evolution code to show some useful error messages because of CallStatus returns ? The best bet is to debug out from EDS. Generic error returns from eds are shown with that message iirc. See where it returns that message and pro'lly you 'll know there. 3) One of the possible reasons of failure for an LDAP backend is not having the certificate installed, which is an especially important part to warn about and provide a solution for. Should I reuse an existing CallStatus (like AuthenticationFailed) or add one for this case ? You can use it. 4) Anyone have an idea why right-clicking on an address in a mail, adding it to addressbook, then selecting an LDAP backend, claims that the backend is readonly, while it works fine when I go to it in the contacts view ? My eds debug console shows no LDAP activity meanwhile, it's not even trying to write to the LDAP server. This is new in 2.22 - I didn't have this behaviour in previous releases. You can look at addressbook/gui/contact-editor/e-contact-quick-add.c:merge_cb that seem to emit the error. -Srini ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
[Evolution-hackers] Can't build Evolution-Data-Server due to undefined reference to `e_proxy_require_proxy_for_uri'
Hey folks, I have troubles building e-d-s: gcc -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-pointer-sign -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -o .libs/soap-test soap-test.o -pthread -Wl,-R/usr/lib/nspr ../../libedataserver/.libs/libedataserver-1.2.so -L/opt/gnome2/lib -L/usr/lib/nspr ./.libs/libegroupwise-1.2.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libbonobo-2.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libbonobo-activation.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libORBitCosNaming-2.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libsoup-2.4.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libxml2.so -lm /opt/gnome2/lib/libgnutls.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libtasn1.so -lz /opt/gnome2/lib/libgcrypt.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libgpg-error.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libgio-2.0.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libgconf-2.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libORBit-2.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libgthread-2.0.so -lrt /opt/gnome2/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so -lnsl /opt/gnome2/lib/libdbus-1.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libgobject-2.0.so /opt/gnome2/lib/libglib-2.0.so -lplds4 -lplc4 -lnspr4 -ldl -lpthread -Wl,--rpath -Wl,/opt/gnome2/lib ./.libs/libegroupwise-1.2.so: undefined reference to `e_proxy_require_proxy_for_uri' ./.libs/libegroupwise-1.2.so: undefined reference to `e_proxy_setup_proxy' ./.libs/libegroupwise-1.2.so: undefined reference to `e_proxy_new' ./.libs/libegroupwise-1.2.so: undefined reference to `e_proxy_peek_uri' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [soap-test] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/muelli/svn/gnome2/evolution-data-server/servers/groupwise' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/muelli/svn/gnome2/evolution-data-server/servers/groupwise' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/muelli/svn/gnome2/evolution-data-server/servers' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/muelli/svn/gnome2/evolution-data-server' make: *** [all] Error 2 *** error during stage build of evolution-data-server: ## Error running make *** [52/54] You might want to have a look at the full build log at http://rafb.net/p/Uwlhfj78.html Especially ./libedataserver/e-proxy.c seems to be built. I could swear that I had e-d-s built and never touched it. I am not aware of any changes that might cause this build failure. Does anybody have a hint for me? Thanks in advance, Muelli ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution and ldap contacts
On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 11:17 +0200, Thomas Vander Stichele wrote: Hi, I've been trying in my spare time to dip my feet in the LDAP contacts backend because, well, there's lots of stuff that it does wrong for me to the point where it's close to unusable in my real life use. I'm starting small, and I have some questions that I've already asked various people IRL or on IRC, but nobody seems to have a good idea, so I thought I'd join and ask here instead. 1) Does anyone know why the LDAP backend first does an anonymous bind (which my servers for obvious reasons don't allow) to decide if the server is up at all ? I don't see the point of not using the credentials configured here. 2) Is there anything in evolution checeking the GNOME_Evolution_Addressbook_CallStatus returned from some of the calls ? It is hugely annoying to not have any clue at all *why* a contact backend fails. It got slightly better in evo 2.22 (which shows Error loading addressbook in the widget you get when you click To/CC/Bcc) but not by much. Where should I go dig in the Evolution code to show some useful error messages because of CallStatus returns ? 3) One of the possible reasons of failure for an LDAP backend is not having the certificate installed, which is an especially important part to warn about and provide a solution for. Should I reuse an existing CallStatus (like AuthenticationFailed) or add one for this case ? 4) Anyone have an idea why right-clicking on an address in a mail, adding it to addressbook, then selecting an LDAP backend, claims that the backend is readonly, while it works fine when I go to it in the contacts view ? My eds debug console shows no LDAP activity meanwhile, it's not even trying to write to the LDAP server. This is new in 2.22 - I didn't have this behaviour in previous releases. Any help on these questions would be much appreciated, because I look forward to have a working LDAP contacts backend. Here is a feature request. Make the LDAP view return a list of contacts or at least a partial, user selectable number of contacts and display them without having to do a manual search. Basically make it work like the contacts on the local hard drive. Thanks ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution and ldap contacts
And my favourite feature request: DISABLE LDAP if you cannot see the server. I need to tunnel in to my work to get the LDAP server; without access Evo hangs for 1 minute between each transaction. And some places I cannot make the tunnel, so evo is unusable. Bill On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 12:06 -0700, George Farris wrote: Here is a feature request. Make the LDAP view return a list of contacts or at least a partial, user selectable number of contacts and display them without having to do a manual search. Basically make it work like the contacts on the local hard drive. Thanks ___ Evolution-hackers mailing list Evolution-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
