[Users] [Devel] Proposal packaging Zimlets/Extensions via OS repos using RPM/DEB

[Truong Anh Tuan]

+1 from me.

On April 15, 2016 4:26:17 PM GMT+07:00, Barry De Graaff <barrydg at zetalliance.org> wrote:
>Dear founders,
>
>I would like to propose to start using RPM's and DEB's for the
>deployment and
>install of Zimlets/Extensions.
>
>The use of DEB/RPM allows us to install Zimlets, Admin Zimlets,
>Extensions and
>configuration (by way of post install scripts).
>
>Please note that it will still be possible to install any Zimlet the
>`old` way,
>doing it with repo's (kind of like with epel on Centos) will allow
>Sysadmins
>to have a trusted source for Zimlets that potentially can be
>automatically
>upgraded.
>
>Another benefit of this that Zimbra has already a lot of stuff in place
>to 
>build RPM/DEBs and that Ubuntu and RedHat already have all the stuff we
>need built in, saving us a lot of time.
>
>
>Proposal is to create a repository for Zimbra-Community that holds all
>our work
>and that of others.
>
>1st step, Quanah to deliver an example repo that shows how to package a
>Zimlet
>2nd step, Tuan to package some zimlets, for example pgp-zimlet 
>3rd step, Quanah point out how to push code to the build process
>4th step, Cine delivers an https webserver for the repo and a nice url,
>packages.zetalliance.org
>5th step, Quanah or a script copies the RPM/DEB files to the repo
>6th step, create a wiki on how to add the repo.
>
>Founders, I would like your +1/-1's on this. Then I will see what parts
>of the Zimlet 2.0 need
>to be targeted somewhere else.
>
>
>Regards Barry

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Regards,
Tuan