From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Wed Jun 1 14:08:35 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863A8B4F064 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2016 14:08:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglists@toco-domains.de) Received: from toco-domains.de (mail.toco-domains.de [176.9.39.170]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 51BE71CDD for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2016 14:08:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mailinglists@toco-domains.de) Received: from [0.0.0.0] (mail.toco-domains.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:150:50a5::6]) by toco-domains.de (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 39B551AAF050; Wed, 1 Jun 2016 14:08:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: Zimbra Port To: rs+freebsd-ports@trust64.com, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <74bdbdd0-0883-c7bd-fa00-996fca53f502@trust64.com> From: Torsten Zuehlsdorff Message-ID: Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 16:08:26 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <74bdbdd0-0883-c7bd-fa00-996fca53f502@trust64.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 14:08:35 -0000 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