Zimbra Port

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> 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.

Thank you for that. This can be an important application
in the ports tree.

> * 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?

It's uncommon and there are no other ports doing this.

To get it to build it's OK, but in the long run, this has to adapt.

> * 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.

>From what I know, this is approx. one magnitude (10x) larger than
anything else.

> (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?

A make that does a git clone is probably a bad idea, the
ports framework has no hooks for that, as far as I understand.

Is there any kind of release process ? Some sort of code modularisation ?

> Would this be a problem for the FreeBSD build cluster 
> infrastructure to create the packages?, ...)

It would be a challenge, yes.

> * 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?

I've not found a port that does a git clone, so I think
putting some git clone somewhere as a .tgz would be a easier
start.

> This is the right place to get help started in porting? FreeBSD has so 
> much mailing lists :-)

Yes, it is. But I can tell you, this is a huge task!

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