Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 16:08:26 +0200 From: Torsten Zuehlsdorff <mailinglists@toco-domains.de> To: rs+freebsd-ports@trust64.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Zimbra Port Message-ID: <cc640476-9ae8-d4da-4f84-ee066654f6a1@toco-domains.de> In-Reply-To: <74bdbdd0-0883-c7bd-fa00-996fca53f502@trust64.com> References: <74bdbdd0-0883-c7bd-fa00-996fca53f502@trust64.com>
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Hello Ray, > 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. That is really create. I wanted to start a Zimbra port myself, but was stuck with GitLab (and a bunch of others...) :D > 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? Normally we just change the pathes of such ports. > * 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?, ...) A git clone contains the complete development *history*. If a try to fetch a packet from their homepage it is "just" around 850 MB which should not be a problem. > * 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'm not aware of such a way. But since there is a Git-Repo: isn't there a management tool like GitLab, which could provides tarballs? At least it is possible to set one up, clone the repo and provide it this way. > This is the right place to get help started in porting? FreeBSD has so > much mailing lists :-) Yes, this is the right place. Feel free to contact me, i would gladly help (but need to finish some more stuff before). Greetings, Torsten
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