Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 15:47:00 +0200 From: rs <rs+freebsd-ports@trust64.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Zimbra Port Message-ID: <74bdbdd0-0883-c7bd-fa00-996fca53f502@trust64.com>
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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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