[Kolab-devel] Installer and OpenPKG

[Buchan Milne]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004, Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> On Friday 12 March 2004 10:50, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 16:12, Stephan Buys wrote:
> 
> > > We want to make a Fedora based installer for Kolab which is
> > > where the Anaconda definition of the kolab.bootrap file comes
> > > in.
> >
> > It would be interesting to know the reasons for the Anaconda
> > installer and how it will work.
> > Using an OpenPKG 2.0 Kolab Server package, there
> > are two difficulties left:
> > 	- How to disable or reconfigure other services using the same ports
> > 	on the machine
> > 	- download a lot of files and start the script
> > I image an Anaconda installer addressing these issues,
> > but not more. Am I correct?
> 
> Many people asked about the use of OpenPGK.
> I believe it was a good decision to use OpenPGK,
> as it is quite suitable for the server installations 
> Kolab Server is targetting. Unfortunately many people had
> problems with Kolab's installation and blamed it on
> OpenPKG, because they did not know OpenPKG
> and assumed it was the cause.

Well ... using OpenPKG on systems that already have rpm, it is a bit of 
excessive overhead.

For example, on Mandrake 10.0, you can now install Kolab with:

# urpmi kolab-server

But, there was a lot of hacking on the OpenPKG spec files to get them to 
that point ...

Regards,
Buchan