[Kolab-devel] Reworking pykolab, setup-kolab and packaging

[Daniel Morlock]

Hi Paul,

sounds great! I'm curious to try the modified Kolab Setup.
Maybe we can integrate it into our Gentoo packages for Kolab? It would fit
nicely into the package setup part which is invoked after emerging the
Kolab packages.

Regards,
Daniel.


On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Paul Boddie <paul at boddie.org.uk> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been pressing on with looking at the work done by setup-kolab and
> trying
> to make it play nice with Debian packaging. Just to make sure that this
> work
> doesn't get lost or forgotten, I'll be making it available for people to
> download and adapt. Here are some of the highlights...
>
> The setup-kolab command now avoids doing configuration work if it is able
> to.
> This means that it tests for databases, database users and modified
> configuration settings and avoids asking for input if it believes that the
> work has already been done.
>
> The setup-kolab command now also supports a --check (or -C) option that
> reports its view of the work that needs doing. If it reports "setup done"
> for
> everything, the configuration of the system should be a working one; if it
> reports "needs setup", the components affected need to be configured. I
> also
> changed setup-kolab to show the component listing if invoked without
> arguments
> as I didn't realise that it even had such a help message until I discovered
> that there was a "help" component by looking at the code.
>
> Some "reset" options are added to setup-kolab to support explicit
> reconfiguration for certain components, updating configuration files so
> that
> they contain valid credentials, for example.
>
> In order to integrate setup-kolab with Debian packaging, I've added some
> debconf support so that setup-kolab can be run in a postinst script and
> show
> debconf dialogues - only in situations where interactions with the user are
> necessary - and this requires some modifications to the dependency tree,
> particularly around the role of the kolab-conf package which has to be
> available for the various dependent packages to be configured (as they now
> use
> setup-kolab, of course). I'll follow up with the Debian-specific mailing
> list
> for Kolab packaging: there are probably some things I've done in a
> suboptimal
> fashion.
>
> Some more things probably need doing such as maintaining man pages for the
> different commands. I see that reference documentation has been generated
> for
> Sphinx somehow, so perhaps there's a toolchain being used that also might
> feed
> into man page generation, particularly if restructured text is being used
> (since I've already come across tools that make acceptable man pages from
> reST).
>
> I've written this work up from a Debian packaging perspective here:
>
> http://blogs.fsfe.org/pboddie/?p=623
>
> Once again, I hope this is of interest to people, and I'll post the
> location
> of my modifications to pykolab and to the packaging in the near future.
>
> Paul
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