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== pkg-giraffe package repository ==
=== Using packages from Alioth ===

Packages are available at https://pkg-giraffe.alioth.debian.org/packages/
These can be included into sources.list, for sid on AMD64 for example, via
{{{
deb http://pkg-giraffe.alioth.debian.org/packages sid/amd64/
deb http://pkg-giraffe.alioth.debian.org/packages sid/all/
}}}

Releases are signed with GPG key AF90BD8F which can be added to a system as trusted key using apt-key


=== Uploading packages to Alioth ===

In order to upload packages to the repo on Alioth you need to be member of the
pkg-giraffe group and have Alioth ssh access set up.
Uploads can be done via dput using the following configuration:

{{{
[pkg-giraffe]
fqdn = alioth.debian.org
incoming = /home/groups/pkg-giraffe/htdocs/packages/mini-dinstall/incoming
method = scp
allow_unsigned_uploads = 0
post_upload_command = ssh alioth "mini-dinstall -b -c /home/groups/pkg-giraffe/.mini-dinstall.conf"
}}}

As signed uploads are needed, your key needs to be in the keyring file
"pkg-giraffe-keyring.gpg" on Alioth.

Packaging Giraffe

Giraffe is the free open source variant of the Zarafa Collaboration Platform packaged for Debian.

Resources

Current State

The packages of Zarafa (server) where uploaded for a first time to experimental NEW, but the package was rejected by the ftpmasters due small issues in debian/copyright. zarafa-webapp isn't finally packaged and not available by the Debian repositories, the packaging process is mostly finished, but a upload makes no sense without the Zarafa main packages.

libvmime

zarafa-server, ...

ToDo

  • Check place of the database while install (local or remote) -> Debconf

  • Fix Lintian errors and warnings
  • Review and forward patches against libical (and libvmime, see above) on upstream. For now it seems we can run with the versions of the revitalized package.

  • Move dlopen'ed libs to private directory
  • To be re done with version 7.2.x
  • Test full functionality
    • We'd need some Outlook users here, too...
  • fix init script
    • systemd compatibility
    • error out when database is missing
    • often hangs on stop
  • systemd unit file (partially done)
  • MTA integration
  • check package descriptions
  • logrotate (upstream available in installer/linux/zarafa.logrotate, put in zarafa-common, split it per package)
  • check pre-/postinstall scripts: they do no error handling, don't include debhelper snippets
  • z-push upstream update
  • do not run as UID 0 (problematic for zarafa-search, otherwise it is configurable in the config files)
  • zarafa-common: kill it with fire, no useful parts
  • Adding mechanism to not conflict with packages from upstream

Done

  • (./) import upstream version 7.2.0

  • (./) switch to debhelper

  • (./) Use dbconfig-common/Debconf to generate the initial configuration

    • database name
    • database user
    • database login
  • zarafa-client:
    • (./) Rename zarafa-client to libzarafa-client0 since it contains no client programs

    • (./) make libzarafaclient a proper versioned shared lib (or a private one)

  • (./) Adding some basic autopkgtests

  • (./) Remove embedded copies of fckeditor via the dfsg-clean branch in git, (use fckeditor package) (webaccess is not packaged anymore)

WebApp

ToDo

  • Support more web server configurations (currently only Apache2)
  • Lintian is complaining about
    • tinymce (TinyMCE currently overridden as Debian version is to old)

  • Adding mechanism to not conflict with packages from upstream

Done

The origin of this list is provided by GuidoGünther in https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/agx/publications/2011-06-debian-groupware-zs.pdf.

There was also a talk given on the Zarafa Tour 2015 in Hannover (in german)Talk-Hannover-ZarafaTour2015.pdf.

Using KVM for testing

You probably wont use your current system to test the zarafa packages and that's a good idea so far. KVM is a good alternative for testing because it's supporting snapshot mechanism for easy using and resetting of installations.

Installing needed KVM components

Installation is easy as it's simply a one liner.

$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm libvirt-bin bridge-utils virt-manager virtinst

Further preparations

After this ensure you are a member of the group 'libvirt'

$ sudo usermod -aG libvirt [YOUR_USERNAME]

The virtual network adapter inside the libvirt environment is disabled per default so before to continue start it.

$ virsh -c qemu:///system net-autostart default
$ virsh -c qemu:///system net-start default

The next calls maybe not really needed, but on the other hand it's no problem if the storage pools already up, so just to throw possible issues away.

$ virsh -c qemu:///system pool-start default
$ virsh -c qemu:///system pool-start boot-scratch

Installation of a virtual image

After the finishing of the preparation from above you can install a first image. The installation can be as known done fully automated by a preseed file, Guido has prepared file preseed.cfg. Download the file for example to the 'Downloads' folder within your home directory.

$ wget -P $HOME/Downloads http://honk.sigxcpu.org/projects/libvirt/preseed/preseed.cfg

Next you can set up a install, for example based on the Jessie release amd64 and named unstable-amd64-zarafa.

$ RELEASE=unstable
$ NAME=zarafa
$ DIST=amd64
$ virt-install --connect=qemu:///system \
               --location="http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/$RELEASE/main/installer-$DIST" \
               --initrd-inject=$HOME/Downloads/preseed.cfg \
               --extra-args="auto" \
               --name $RELEASE-$DIST-$NAME --ram=512 \
               --disk=pool=default,size=10,format=qcow2,bus=virtio

This will install a image named 'unstable-amd64-zarafa.qcow2' with a size of 10GB under /var/lib/libvirt/images/. After the install the image will boot automatically.

Usage of KVM images

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pkg-giraffe package repository

Using packages from Alioth

Packages are available at https://pkg-giraffe.alioth.debian.org/packages/ These can be included into sources.list, for sid on AMD64 for example, via

deb http://pkg-giraffe.alioth.debian.org/packages sid/amd64/
deb http://pkg-giraffe.alioth.debian.org/packages sid/all/

Releases are signed with GPG key AF90BD8F which can be added to a system as trusted key using apt-key

Uploading packages to Alioth

In order to upload packages to the repo on Alioth you need to be member of the pkg-giraffe group and have Alioth ssh access set up. Uploads can be done via dput using the following configuration:

[pkg-giraffe]
fqdn = alioth.debian.org
incoming = /home/groups/pkg-giraffe/htdocs/packages/mini-dinstall/incoming
method = scp
allow_unsigned_uploads = 0
post_upload_command = ssh alioth "mini-dinstall -b -c /home/groups/pkg-giraffe/.mini-dinstall.conf"

As signed uploads are needed, your key needs to be in the keyring file "pkg-giraffe-keyring.gpg" on Alioth.