Hi Jim,
I never would have thought of taking upon such a huge project alone, but
Zimbra is reaching out and they actively want Zimbra supported on
FreeBSD (at least Zimbra-FOSS) and I can count on their help.
Also they are restructuring their components because they want zimbra to
be included in other repositories also (Ubuntu, Debian, RPM based,
etc.). So with the help of Zimbra it may not be an impossible task.
Best
Ray
On 06/01/16 16:19, Jim Ohlstein wrote:
Sorry for the top post.
We use Zimbra on an Ubuntu LTS VM with storage via iSCSI.
Given the magnitude, I honestly don't think ports or packages is really the way
to go. I believe that most people use a dedicated (to Zimbra) server or VM.
If I were to approach this project, I'd do it outside of ports, maybe on
github, or possibly as a VM image.
That's not to say it can't be done, rather that a project of this size requires
a layout that is not native to FreeBSD ports, and it's so massive with so many
moving parts, having to comply with the ports infrastructure, and to maintain
it, is probably far more effort than it's worth.
Jim Ohlstein
On Jun 1, 2016, at 9:47 AM, rs <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello List,
I am trying to create a port of the zimbra collaboration suite. I am in contact
with upstream and they are actively helping in making a port happen.
It would be my first FreeBSD port (although I have a lot of linux knowledge and
know how to create packages for .deb).
My first steps involve right now making everything compile (Zimbra includes *a
lot* of libraries themselves instead of relying on the OS to provide them).
I have a couple of questions though:
* Zimbra expects itself to be installed to /opt/zimbra. It is not easy to
change that, /opt/zimbra is hardcoded in a lot of places. Its a longterm goal
of mine to help clean that up, but it is not possible right now. Are there any
problems with a package which installs to /opt?
* The Zimbra source is huge, a git clone is about 13 GigaBytes. I am not sure
on how source that big is handled correctly in ports. (e.g. is it OK that every
make does a git clone and you have to wait until you get the 13 GB of data?
Would this be a problem for the FreeBSD build cluster infrastructure to create
the packages?, ...)
* On the porters handbook it says to fetch a tarball from http/ftp, is it also
possible to directly work with git and clone a repository?
This is the right place to get help started in porting? FreeBSD has so much
mailing lists :-)
Thank you,
Best
RAy
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