[Kolab-devel] Packaging Kolab for Multiple Platforms -> OBS?

[Richard]

Jeroen,

this is very good news.  I proposed this many many moons ago, and now it 
suddenly falls out the sky :)

Op vrijdag 6 september 2013 14:16:48 schreef Jeroen van Meeuwen:
> Hi there,
> 
> Ever since we have successfully moved away from the out-dated and now
> proprietary OpenPKG for Kolab Groupware distribution, a number of us
> have been maintaining packages for a variety of distributions.
> 
> This has proven to be a lengthy, sluggish process, for Kolab Systems (I
> myself in fact) focused primarily on the reference platform Enterprise
> Linux 6, while various community members and sometimes also Kolab
> Systems employees worked on Debian, openSUSE, SUSE, Ubuntu and other
> platform packages.
> 
> This has proven to be quite expensive, not to say prohibitively so, and
> therefore a couple of months ago I have started to look in to using the
> openSUSE Build System for packaging the community edition of Kolab
> Groupware.
> 
> This too has proven a lengthy process, for which I'm continuing to
> figure out various things and aspects as they arise. That said, however,
> I have just now performed my first rather successful "yum -y install
> kolab && setup-kolab" on a CentOS 6 box, with packages from this OBS.
> 
> This means I will now start documenting what I did, why I did it (the
> way I did it), and I that I'm interested in learning what else we might
> need to do should we ultimately decide to make a final switch from our
> current methodology of building and distributing Kolab Groupware
> software, to this brand new one.
> 
> Please note that I have started packaging a version of Kolab 3.0 as
> "Kolab:Development". I will attempt to branch this off as "Kolab:3.0",
> to then move "Kolab:Development" forward towards what will become
> "Kolab:3.1", hopefully soon enough.
> 
> For those of you who are interesting in helping, I would like to request
> you create an account, then a home project, and start contributing and
> building. We'll have to figure out what the process of merging stuff
> would look like exactly, so please bear with me while you go at it.
> 
>    Web URL: https://obs.kolabsys.com/
>    API URL: https://obs.kolabsys.com:444/
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jeroen van Meeuwen
-- 
Richard