[Server-devel] ejabberd-2.1.10 issues

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> As you've seen - getting this old version to build is difficult.
> Getting it to run is even harder.

Yep. Was just a stab in the alternative path. Now that you've
root-cause'd the issue, things look better.

> I think I've found the issue: it is a client bug, now exposed through
> ejabberd getting stricter:
> https://support.process-one.net/browse/EJAB-1533
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45853
>
> And I have an ejabberd patch to apply (attached) until we've fixed the

Right, so you have a partial revert of the "strict" patch at EJAB-1434
- you plan sounds good.

> Would you prefer for this fork to be named 'ejabberd' (with xs-setup
> modifying the EPEL repo file to exclude ejabberd upgrades from epel),
> or ejabberd-xs as before?

This merits a 'release' identifier, but we're only carrying 1 patch
over CentOS, and done the work to split the init script and config off
to xs-config, so keeping the ejabberd name makes sense.




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