Porting Kolab

[Aaron Siegel]

Hello

After years of watching the Kolab/kgroupware project I have finally decide to 
give it a try. Unfortunately Kolab is distributed using Openpkg the reason I 
have put off installing the server. I do not want to use two different 
package management systems on my computer especially if one of them is a rpm 
based system. I have never liked using rpms even when I was running Red Hat. 

I have decided to start the porting Kolab server to Freebsd I am hoping to 
incorporate it into the ports collection and abandon the openpkg stuff. There 
are people running  and developing Kolab on Freebsd system so I know there 
are not any system level compatibility problems. I have started  the porting 
process by cross referencing the openpkg names to the FreeBSD ports. As of 
now I only see two packages that require a  patch specific to Kolab, 
cyrus-imap and  apache. Kolab use five application that are not 
in the FreeBSD ports collection, fsl (a wrapper for ossp-l2), kolabd, 
kolab-webadmin, kolab-resource-handlers, and perl-kolab. These list are in a   
preliminary state, I have not cross referenced all the Perl packages yet nor 
have I confermined all the ports name match the openpkg names.

Has anyone else thought of performing this port? Is there a discusion in the 
FreeBSD community on openpkg and how it may or may not be incorporated into 
the system?  

Aaron