Packaging Kopano
Kopano is the free open source variant of the Kopano Collaboration Platform from Zarafa packaged for Debian. Kopano is the renamed Zarafa Collaboration Platform (ZCP) by Zarafa B.V. as a consequence started by a complete license change to AGPL started in 2015. Some parts are completely rewritten (like the archiver functions) and got integrated in the Kopano release from scratch.
Contents
Resources
Alioth Project: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-giraffe/
Kopano SCM: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-giraffe/giraffe.git
Kopano-WebApp SCM: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-giraffe/zarafa-webapp.git
Mailing List (Discussing): https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-giraffe-discuss
Mailing List (Maintaining/Packaging): https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-giraffe-maintainers
Upstream: https://kopano.com/
Upstream Source: https://stash.kopano.io/projects/KC https://download.kopano.io/community/
Upstream Documentation: https://documentation.kopano.io/
Current State
There was a first attempt for getting the Zarafa suite into Debian, the packages of Zarafa (the core server components) where uploaded for a first time to experimental NEW, but the package was rejected by the ftpmasters due small issues in debian/copyright. The according zarafa-webapp wasn't finally packaged and is not available by the Debian repositories, the packaging process is mostly finished, but a upload was making no sense without the Zarafa main packages. So now the same state is true for the kopano-webapp now.
libvmime
repackage done libvmime
kopano-server, kopano-utils, kopano-dagent, ...
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.
- Test full functionality
- We'd need some Outlook users here, too...
- test and fix init scripts
- systemd compatibility
- error out when database is missing
- often hangs on stop
- systemd unit files (partially done)
- MTA integration
- check package descriptions
- logrotate (upstream available in installer/linux/kopano.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 kopano-search, otherwise it is configurable in the config files and done in the debian packages)
- kopano-common: kill it with fire, no useful parts, still true?
- Adding mechanism to not conflict with packages from upstream
- Autopkgtests
gateway IMAP / POP3 (JellevanderWaa has a branch with gateway tests on his Github https://github.com/jelly/giraffe )
- Caldav (kopano-ical)
Further possible improvements:
- Tweak default SSL settings in gateway.cfg and server.cfg
Add some security features to systemd service files (PrivateTmp=True, etc.)
Done
import upstream version 8.0.1
switch to debhelper 9
Use dbconfig-common/Debconf to generate the initial configuration
- database name
- database user
- database login
- kopano-client:
- Rename zarafa-client to libzarafa-client0 since it contains no client programs ??
- make libkcclient a proper versioned shared lib (it's currently a private one) ??
Adding some basic autopkgtests
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
Basic packaging, Alioth git repo: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-giraffe/zarafa-webapp.git/
ITP 783640
- Lintian was complaining about
jquery-1.6.2.min.js (removed and symlinked to libjs-jquery)
player.swf and moxieplayer.swf (Upstream want to ship this, removed within Debian packaging)
ext-{base,all}.js, prettify.js (removed and symlinked to libjs-extjs libjs-jac libjs-prettify)
Adding some basic autopkgtests (python-selenium, chromdriver phantomjs needed)
Default website is available via https, http is redirected to https (This requires finally a valid vhost!)
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
to fill out
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.