Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 18:19:10 -0800 (PST) From: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> To: Jason Helfman <jgh@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Zimbra Port Message-ID: <1360376350.36760.YahooMailNeo@web141404.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <CAMuy=%2Bg35TD-jDXjwYipjXSTBQPgbMgErdGgx%2BLuWhshNi2=ew@mail.gmail.com> References: <1359472957.57513.YahooMailNeo@web141403.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <CADLo83-SEp_ekbsyomuwT3B8J9SWatoUK_Z=Gm4TucQ-SX05cA@mail.gmail.com> <1360357160.42747.YahooMailNeo@web141401.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> <CAMuy=%2Bg35TD-jDXjwYipjXSTBQPgbMgErdGgx%2BLuWhshNi2=ew@mail.gmail.com>
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Gentlemen:=0A=0AI created an account on the Zimbra site and sent mail to th= e OSS Engineer, Solko, who has done most of the attempted post.=A0 I hope t= o hear from him soon and get this kicked off.=0A=0AAt the present time, I'm= in the middle of performing the buildout of my infrastructure and products= for Atlantis Services, my company.=A0 I hope to do FreeBSD/PC-BSD proud. := -)=0A=0AI hope that "Ports" can pick up the mantle and run with this once I= get all the parties to the table.=0A=0A(Heck, I've done an OK job over the= years.... although OpenNMS (Thanks to getting Sevan to talk to ports) is n= ot a complete port, the install is incredibly simple now...=A0 FrontAccount= ing is getting many of my client QuickBooks users :-)=A0 Zimbra could be ye= t another great addition to ports.=A0 As I get more feedback from my client= s as to their needs, we'll round out even more useful ports for the small b= usiness user. )=0A=0A(Sure my site isn't up, word of mouth is keeping me bu= sy enough. :-) )=A0 =0A=0A=0AYou gotta love the look of bewilderment:=0A=0A= Not Microsoft?=0AFree Office Suite?=A0 (OO, of course)=0ANo viruses?=0ANo S= PAM?=0AFree software?=0ANo license fees?=0A=0AIt just keeps getting better.= ....=0A=0ASo, here's hoping we can get this to go quickly....=A0 =0A=0A=0AP= .=0A=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0A From: Jason Helfman <jgh@F= reeBSD.org>=0ATo: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> =0ACc: Chris Rees <c= rees@freebsd.org>; "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org> =0ASent: Friday,= February 8, 2013 5:31 PM=0ASubject: Re: Zimbra Port=0A =0A=0AOn Fri, Feb 8= , 2013 at 12:59 PM, Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> wrote:=0A=0AChris,= =0A>=0A>I dug into it hard just a few days ago.=0A>=0A>Here's their issues:= =0A>=0A>Like most people who are "solely" Linux (I'm not solely anything, 2= 5+ years in sysadmin, architecture, internet engineering, etc.), they don't= understand where /opt came from and what its true, original purpose was.= =A0 (Additional OS enhancement software - directory was created circa 1990)= .=A0 Most of the linux world believes that all additional software goes int= o /opt.=0A>=0A>Happily, we have nullfs but more happily, ZFS.=0A>=0A>ZFS cr= eating /opt/zimbra or creating a zpool and zfs'ing it, whatever, solves thi= s issue.=A0 (In other words, poor use of auto-configuration tools and make = variables that allow you to define a DESTDIR instead of hardcoding it.)=A0 = Performing a softlink or other things causes the install to totally blow up= .=0A>=0A>They guy who did the attempt at FreeBSD installation, did a decent= job at figuring this out.=A0 Everything, performing his procedure works as= almost as directed.=A0=0A>=0A>Things that are not to be liked about it:=0A= >=0A>He builds specific packages for the install and bundles them up with t= he install.=0A>He creates three packages for the install, the builddeps, ru= ndeps and source.=0A>He then almost forces you to use these packages and hi= s 'blessed ports packages" that he created to get it to install correctly i= nstead of just using ports.=0A>=0A>After all this is installed with pkg_add= (I couldn't find any indication of pkgng work) The supporting software is = installed and ready to go.=0A>=0A>Now, you get to the Zimbra source.=A0 (Al= l 3 software bundles are tar'd and gzip'd)=A0 Once the ZCS is unpacked, you= run install.sh in its root directory and away it goes.=A0=0A>=0A>Once you = get by some very strange errors (DNS not configured but it was, you have to= force it to be your domain, and some other strangeness), you work out thos= e few issues and find no errors in the install log(s).=A0 Awesome....=0A>= =0A>The last part of it is the thing starts up and integrates everything...= .=A0 (This is something truly impressive:=A0 Apache, OpenSSL (certs get gen= 'd) , LDAP, MySqeel, Postfix, all the spam, virus, etc packages that go wit= h a mail system, and on and on.....=A0 It then tells me everything is runni= ng and I have to connect to https://<host>:7071..... it just hangs at that = point....=A0 *shrug*=A0=0A>=0A>I've tried debugging it and I've tried over = 10 times of going over possible errors.=A0 Nothing.=A0 I tried contacting t= he author but there seems to be an access issue.=0A>=0A>I'll try again soon= , however, my company is being built right now....=A0 so I have VERY, VERY = LIMITED time.=A0 (Yes, it's PC-BSD and FreeBSD based)=A0 I was hoping to ha= ve a full collaboration suite for MS exchange and Outlook drop-in replaceme= nt and this looked very promising.=A0 *sigh*=0A>=0A>P.=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>= =0A>________________________________=0A>=A0From: Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.= org>=0A>To: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com>=0A>Cc: "ports@freebsd.org"= <ports@freebsd.org>=0A>Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 2:23 PM=0A>Subject: = Re: Zimbra Port=0A>=0A>=0A>On 29 January 2013 15:22, Paul Pathiakis <pathia= ki2@yahoo.com> wrote:=0A>> Hi,=0A>>=0A>> It looks like they are soooo close= here.=A0 Can't ports pick this up and put it in the collection?=0A>>=0A>> = http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_on_FreeBSD=0A>>=0A>>; If you look at the = Zimbra site for threads there are quite few with people asking for Zimbra o= n FreeBSD.=0A>=0A>At a glance it's a little less trivial than "picking it u= p and putting=0A>it in the collection" :)=0A>=0A>It probably wouldn't be to= o difficult, but someone would need to make=0A>a tarball of the sources ava= ilable, which may have licensing issues...=0A>perhaps you could ask the aut= hor how he made the packages?=0A>=0A>Chris=0A>=0A=0AI may able to take a lo= ok at this. I was a Zimbra Administrator and have run into a number of issu= es that I can solve, and maybe can work with you on the port.=0A=0Amail/zim= bra or java/zimbra lol..... :)=0A=0A-jgh=0A=0A--=0AJason Helfman=A0=A0=A0= =A0=A0=A0 =A0=A0 | FreeBSD Committer=0Ajgh@FreeBSD.org=A0=A0=A0=A0 |=A0http= ://people.freebsd.org/~jgh=A0 | The Power to Serve From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 9 03:18:55 2013 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83F4ECDD for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 03:18:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller23@insightbb.com) Received: from mail.insightbb.com (smtp1.insight.synacor.com [208.47.185.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F228336 for <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>; Sat, 9 Feb 2013 03:18:54 +0000 (UTC) X_CMAE_Category: 0,0 Undefined,Undefined X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=G4+e4qY5 c=1 sm=0 a=Dm9TOXL4taQ+Gy1KovpL+A==:17 a=106E8bdoDFEA:10 a=jLN7EqiLvroA:10 a=9YQ-1ebCAAAA:8 a=iF0c6FqsOP4A:10 a=s1O25tkdAAAA:8 a=U3-AZJamp_Ule4E6froA:9 a=OyOq_G8mXAEA:10 a=Dm9TOXL4taQ+Gy1KovpL+A==:117 X-CM-Score: 0 X-Scanned-by: Cloudmark Authority Engine Authentication-Results: smtp01.insight.synacor.com smtp.mail=mueller23@insightbb.com; spf=softfail; sender-id=softfail Authentication-Results: smtp01.insight.synacor.com header.from=mueller23@insightbb.com; sender-id=softfail Received-SPF: softfail (smtp01.insight.synacor.com: transitional domain insightbb.com does not designate 74.130.198.7 as permitted sender) Received: from [74.130.198.7] ([74.130.198.7:19486] helo=localhost) by mail.insightbb.com (envelope-from <mueller23@insightbb.com>) (ecelerity 2.2.3.49 r(42060/42061)) with ESMTP id 83/63-06175-810C5115; Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:18:48 -0500 Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:18:48 -0500 Message-ID: <83.63.06175.810C5115@smtp01.insight.synacor.com> From: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller23@insightbb.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg totally unusable with KMS and new Xorg on Sandy Bridge system: how to undo Cc: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, Andrey Fesenko <f0andrey@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD <freebsd-ports.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-ports>, <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports>; List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports>, <mailto:freebsd-ports-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:18:55 -0000 >From Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>: > After adding those, graphics/libdrm must be rebuilt, and > x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel must have the KMS option enabled and be > rebuilt. If you just added WITH_NEW_XORG, there will be other xorg > components that need to be updated. O no, I'm getting rid of KMS and WITH_NEW_XORG because they produce an unusable Xorg installation that just crashes the system and requires Reset button. I guess I need to use portmaster with --force-config on x11/xorg ? Tom
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