Re: Help with palm

[Matt Davey <mcdavey mrao cam ac uk>]

On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 17:05 -0700, Nathan Owens wrote:
> --- Nathan Owens <pianocomp81 yahoo com> wrote:
> > I haven't been able to find the OpenSuSE source for Evolution 2.8.3, but I
> > have
> > found it for 2.8.2 at
> > http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/src-oss/suse/src/. It has
> > a
> > patch for pilot-link 0.12, so I'll start there. Hopefully it will turn
> > something up.
> 
> To reply to my own e-mail: I looked at the 2.8.2 version of the OpenSuSE source
> code, and it seems that EAddress and the other conduits seem to be broken. Of
> course, I may be wrong because I had to manually apply the patches, but I'm
> seeing over at Novell that this is definitely happening:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=235668. I've posted basically the
> information below on the bug site as well.
> 
> One reason for the failure is that local_record_to_pilot_record() and
> ecard_from_remote_record() were not converted to use the pi_buffer_t structure.
> The function calls to the pilot-link functions pack_Address() and
> unpack_Address() haven't been converted from pilot-link 0.11.x to 0.12.x.
> 
> Mainly, I think the problem stems from the fact that they need to completely
> update the patch. The name of the patch in the source RPM is
> evolution-2.2.0-port-to-pilot-link-0.12.patch, so it's pretty old (and probably
> based on a preX build).
> 
> I'll be attaching a patch at the the Novell bug site soon. It's basically going
> to be taking the original patches for the pilot-link conversion and remove the
> pilot-link 0.11.8 pieces of the code. This will leave only the 0.12 pieces of
> the pilot-link code in the conduits, which should allow the Evolution conduits
> to compile directly on OpenSUSE 10.2 and above.

Great stuff.  What a mess!  Thanks for digging in to this one.

Matt

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