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Re: Fwd: First question--LDAP

 

So, I have to create a schooltool.ldap deb?
For what version of Ubuntu?
No one has touched it for a long time, but it exists and maybe works.

2010/8/23 Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: SCOTT OWEN <SOWEN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:53 AM
> Subject: Re: First question--LDAP
> To: Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Just for the fun of it.....
> Where would a person acquire that schooltool.ldap package??
>
> I *may* try and give it a go......
>
> It's looking more and more like schooltool will do almost exactly what
> we were looking for.
>
>
>
>>>> Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> 8/19/2010 1:11 PM >>>
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:20 PM, SCOTT OWEN <SOWEN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Thanks for the offer.... I'll let you know... I don't want to get to far
>> ahead here....leme' see what my end-users think before I start down that
>> road.
>> I'm not familiar with CAS at all, LDAP is my much preferred method....
>>
>> You mention "other packages" might a plain old debian "lenny" package be in
>> there somewhere??
>> (I tried Lenny before Ubuntu, and had schootool running no problem, but had
>> issues finding the mstt font package....)
>>
> Regarding using Debian, we have not particular reason to think it
> won't work, but if it doesn't, or if it stops working, we won't
> necessarily know how to fix it (or, to put it more pointedly, we won't
> spend time trying).
>
> Actually, everything is "really" packaged as Python eggs.  See, for
> example: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-cppeak3.html#N10232
>
> We then generate debs from these more or less automatically.
>
> When you do a "source" installation of SchoolTool, essentially it just
> uses egg packages to create a sandbox environment for you.
>
> But anyhow, it looks like we did make schooltool.ldap packages, so
> this explanation is probably unnecessary.
>
> --Tom
>
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