Horde4 News: An early Horde4 release for Kolab-Server-2.2.4

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Monday, December 06, 2010 03:00:02 pm Gunnar Wrobel wrote:
> A while back p at rdus promised an early alpha of Horde4 for the Kolab
> Server for today (see the roadmap at
> http://log.pardus.de/2010/11/horde4kolab-road-map.html). Which would
> have been followed by the release of the Horde4 mail client and the
> new mobile mail view in the following weeks. But as the Horde
> developer team has been quick to provide the new mobile view there is
> no need to delay the delivery of the mail client and the mobile portal
> any further. So you get a little bit more than promised today but as
> it is St Nicholas' Day that seems to be just fair.
> 
> Of course all the usual warnings apply. This is an extremely early
> packaging attempt. It is not well prepared and the installation
> procedure is flawed. There will be no upgrade path. Doing the
> following on your server has a high chance of damaging the system. Do
> not even think about installing the packages on a productive machine.
> In addition the packages just install the mail part of Horde and won't
> provide a lot of new functionality. And since there are tons of issues
> the stuff that is new is likely to be broken.
> 
> But those of you who have a spare machine with a throw-away Kolab
> Server 2.2.4 can try to install the packages using the following steps
> (this assumes your server is up and running):
> 
> wget http://files.pardus.de/horde4-20101206.sh
> chmod u+x horde4-20101206.sh
> /horde4-20101206.sh
> 
> You should be able to access the Horde4 installation at
> http://your-domain.com/client4.
> 
> Any kind of feedback is of course appreciated and will be used to
> improve the packages during the months to come. p at rdus will also
> continue testing and bug fixing of the packages while the final phases
> of the Horde4 development continue.
> 
> Now there are no December items of the roadmap left. So p at rdus will
> continue the next weeks with highlighting the new elements you can
> expect to find in Horde4. This should be accompanied with a few bug
> fix releases. In addition it is planned to provide you with a demo
> server in case you do not have a spare machine to test the new
> packages. So stay tuned!
> 
> P.S.: This is of course my very first e-mail sent with the Horde4 mail
> client. Feels good ;)
Great. I amd trying to make a distro. I have a few questions:
Why did php-pear-channel-horde change to PEAR-Horde-Channel?
Are there any spec files for a opensuse/Fedora/Mandriva distro, it's going to 
need a lot of work to adapt them all from openpkg

-- 
Thomas