[Kolab-devel] Doing it for the Pi

[daniele+kolab at gobbetti.name]

julian at halifax.rwth-aachen.de ha scritto:

>Hi Daniele,
>
>do you get Kolab 3 working on the Raspberry Pi? Which version do you  
>have of the Raspberry Pi with 256MB or 512MB of RAM?

Hi Julian, hi all,

apologize for the long overdue answer, but issues with my ADSL at home  
prevented me from having decent connectivity.
Anyways, of course I am willing to share the packages I built :)

Please be aware that:
- I am a long time debian user but first time package  
builder
- the packages are not signed, they are provided as is. I merely built them  
without touching the original sources, but you have to take my word for this.
- the process has some rough edges that I tried to document, but some steps  
may be missing, don't proceed if you're a beginner!
- The packages are built from the source repository of kolab[1], and not the  
git repositories, with the notable exception of syncrotron, that is built  
from the git repo because it wasn't working
- I built also 389 from source, but it should be identical to the one  
available on raspian repos, however I didn't try it.

Having said that, the packages are available here:
https://daniele.gobbetti.name/kolab-debs/

Please follow the directions contained in this file:
https://daniele.gobbetti.name/kolab-debs/00-kolab-installation.txt
It contains both the installation order (dpkg -i cannot solve dependencies on its own) as well as some steps you'll have to perform after installation.

A few words about performances:
-web interfaces work well, both roundcube and the webadmin.
- I don't know if it will work on 256Mb PIs because on  
mine it's constantly above 300Mb of RAM usage
- clamav and freshclam are HUGE beasts, it took almost one minute for a mail to go from the sender to the recipient (both on the same PI). Unfortunately these packages are configured as dependencies, and I think this needs to be changed in order to get kolab3 working good on the raspi.

Calendar and contacts works really well through syncrotron (that's my use case scenario) on android.

>Regards
>Julian

Best Regards,
Daniele

[1] I used this repo configuration: 
deb-src  
http://mirror.kolabsys.com/pub/debian/kolab-3.0/ wheezy development updates

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>Zitat von "Julian Cloos" <julian at halifax.rwth-aachen.de>:
>
>> Hi Daniele,
>>
>> I also tried to compile and build packages for the Raspberry Pi. But
>I have
>> not much time to do this therefore I am lucky to hearing that you get
>Kolab 3
>> running on the Raspberry Pi.
>> Can you share the packages so that I can try out how kolab 3 runs on
>my
>> Raspberry Pi with only 256MB :-D
>>
>> kind regards
>> Julian
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, 7. März 2013, 14:14:09 schrieb
>daniele+kolab at gobbetti.name:
>>> daniele+kolab at gobbetti.name writes:
>>> > I'm a long time debian user but never built "real" packages hence
>I
>>> > still don't know what the outcome will be, but I'll share the debs
>with
>>> > whomever is interested in them.
>>>
>>> Milestone reached: I managed to compile all the dependencies for
>kolab3! :D
>>>
>>> The only two source packages that weren't needed as dependencies
>are:
>>> idm-console-framework
>>> jss
>>>
>>> Does this sound right?
>>>
>>> The debs are ~25MB, I'll try to install them to a spare Pi that I
>borrowed
>>> from a friend and let you know how it works out.
>>>
>>> The process was flawless, huge congrats to the people who created
>the source
>>> packages! I only had to symlink /usr/sbin/apache2 to
>>> /usr/sbin/apache2.worker in order to build 389-admin
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Daniele
>>>
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