Zimbra Port
Mathias Picker
Mathias.Picker at virtual-earth.de
Wed Jun 1 15:31:18 UTC 2016
Am 1. Juni 2016 16:19:56 MESZ, schrieb Jim Ohlstein <jim at ohlste.in>:
>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.
I second this.
There allready is a version of zimbra on FreeBSD and it's intentionally not a real port https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_on_FreeBSD
I used to use this, but I'm now running a CentOS instance just for zimbra.
And I don't think zimbra outside of /opt is ever going to happen, it's coded into too many places.
You might want to rethink this…
Cheers, Mathias
>
>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 <rs+freebsd-ports at trust64.com> 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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