Re: [Evolution] Need focus on Exchange (was Re: CalDAV - any successes out there)

["P Chenthill" <pchenthill novell com>]

Hi Nystrom,
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 10:12 -0800, Per Nystrom wrote: 
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 04:46 -0700, Veerapuram Varadhan wrote:
>
> > Not sure of your metrics.  If you are going by the amount of commits in
> > the evolution-exchange module in SVN - your metrics are wrong.
>
> I was going by the bugs opened and resolved in the Evolution Connector
> section of bugzilla.gnome.org.
>
> Reading some of the later posts here, it seems like maybe bug handling
> wasn't so much dropped as just skipped for release 2.8.x.  It sounds
> like you're making great strides in 2.9.x and the SVN tree, but that
> doesn't really help those of us that "upgraded" to the 2.8.x version
> that was packaged with FC6 and Ubuntu 6.10, and are now having serious
> issues.
>
> The problem I'm having in 2.8.3 with calendar appointments (see bug
> 394473) not saving on Exchange is severe enough that I tried to
> downgrade my FC6 installation with the FC5 evo- srpms but they won't
> compile (and there's probably other special dependency hells that I've
> yet to even see on that path).  So now I'm probably going to downgrade
> the entire system to FC5 just to so I have something that I can rely on
> for email and calendar.
>
> I like a lot of the changes to evo that I've seen in 2.8.3.  I might
> even try to run 2.9.x if I can find SRPMs that compile on my box before
> resorting to a downgrade.  But the bottom line is I need to be able to
> do my day-to-day work also, and the problem I'm having in 2.8.3 is
> killing my productivity.ou
You can do the following to fix the problem. Get the patch for timezone
update from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=83954. You can
apply the patch in you install area where the timezone information for
evolution-data-server is present. You can find the location of zoneinfo
by
$ rpm -ql evolution-data-server |grep zoneinfo
It would be under /opt/gnome/share/evolution-data-server-1.8/

Go to that directory and apply the patch
$ cd /opt/gnome/share/evolution-data-server-1.8/
$ patch -p0 <~/timezone_update.diff
Check if its applied properly. 
Do a evolution force shutdown
$ evolution-2.8 --force-shutdown

Things should start working fine with appointments.

thanks, Chenthill.