On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Paul Pathiakis <pathia...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Chris, > > I dug into it hard just a few days ago. > > Here's their issues: > > Like most people who are "solely" Linux (I'm not solely anything, 25+ > years in sysadmin, architecture, internet engineering, etc.), they don't > understand where /opt came from and what its true, original purpose was. > (Additional OS enhancement software - directory was created circa 1990). > Most of the linux world believes that all additional software goes into > /opt. > > Happily, we have nullfs but more happily, ZFS. > > ZFS creating /opt/zimbra or creating a zpool and zfs'ing it, whatever, > solves this issue. (In other words, poor use of auto-configuration tools > and make variables that allow you to define a DESTDIR instead of hardcoding > it.) Performing a softlink or other things causes the install to totally > blow up. > > They guy who did the attempt at FreeBSD installation, did a decent job at > figuring this out. Everything, performing his procedure works as almost as > directed. > > Things that are not to be liked about it: > > He builds specific packages for the install and bundles them up with the > install. > He creates three packages for the install, the builddeps, rundeps and > source. > He then almost forces you to use these packages and his 'blessed ports > packages" that he created to get it to install correctly instead of just > using ports. > > After all this is installed with pkg_add (I couldn't find any indication > of pkgng work) The supporting software is installed and ready to go. > > Now, you get to the Zimbra source. (All 3 software bundles are tar'd and > gzip'd) Once the ZCS is unpacked, you run install.sh in its root directory > and away it goes. > > Once you get by some very strange errors (DNS not configured but it was, > you have to force it to be your domain, and some other strangeness), you > work out those few issues and find no errors in the install log(s). > Awesome.... > > The last part of it is the thing starts up and integrates everything.... > (This is something truly impressive: Apache, OpenSSL (certs get gen'd) , > LDAP, MySqeel, Postfix, all the spam, virus, etc packages that go with a > mail system, and on and on..... It then tells me everything is running and > I have to connect to https://<host>:7071..... it just hangs at that > point.... *shrug* > > I've tried debugging it and I've tried over 10 times of going over > possible errors. Nothing. I tried contacting the author but there seems > to be an access issue. > > I'll try again soon, however, my company is being built right now.... so > I have VERY, VERY LIMITED time. (Yes, it's PC-BSD and FreeBSD based) I > was hoping to have a full collaboration suite for MS exchange and Outlook > drop-in replacement and this looked very promising. *sigh* > > P. > > > > > ________________________________ > From: Chris Rees <cr...@freebsd.org> > To: Paul Pathiakis <pathia...@yahoo.com> > Cc: "po...@freebsd.org" <po...@freebsd.org> > Sent: Friday, February 8, 2013 2:23 PM > Subject: Re: Zimbra Port > > On 29 January 2013 15:22, Paul Pathiakis <pathia...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It looks like they are soooo close here. Can't ports pick this up and > put it in the collection? > > > > http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Zimbra_on_FreeBSD > > > > If you look at the Zimbra site for threads there are quite few with > people asking for Zimbra on FreeBSD. > > At a glance it's a little less trivial than "picking it up and putting > it in the collection" :) > > It probably wouldn't be too difficult, but someone would need to make > a tarball of the sources available, which may have licensing issues... > perhaps you could ask the author how he made the packages? > > Chris > I may able to take a look at this. I was a Zimbra Administrator and have run into a number of issues that I can solve, and maybe can work with you on the port. mail/zimbra or java/zimbra lol..... :) -jgh -- Jason Helfman | FreeBSD Committer j...@freebsd.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh | The Power to Serve _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
