Packaging Kopano and related packages

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.

Resources

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

kopano-server, kopano-utils, kopano-dagent, ...

ToDo

Further possible improvements:

Done

kopano-webapp

ToDo

Done

z-push/d-push

The d-push packages, the debranded Debian version of z-push, are outdated so far. The license for the z-push source has been also changed to AGPL3 by Zarafa/Kopano. By this the re-brand isn't needed any longer. Kopano stated about a interest that z-push will be updated to recent versions and hopefully finds the way into the Stretch release.

ToDo

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. On the Kopano Conference in 2016 Guido was giving also a talk about the current state of Kopano in Debian.


Using KVM for testing

You probably wont use your current system to test the kopano 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 done 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 unstable release amd64 and named unstable-amd64-kopano.

$ RELEASE=unstable
$ NAME=kopano
$ 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-kopano.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 by the following command:

wget -O - https://pkg-giraffe.alioth.debian.org/EDC3775DAF90BD8F.asc | sudo apt-key add -

To delete the key in the local key store run:

sudo apt-key del 0xEDC3775DAF90BD8F

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.debian.org "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.