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

[Silvan M. Gebhardt]

I can also supply a mirror if that helps ;) 
I have still a few hundred megabits over capacity at the moment ;) 




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On 17 April 2016 20:33:02 CEST, Jorge de la Cruz <jdelacruz at zetalliance.org> wrote:
>+1 
>
>But I will suggest to use packages.zimbra.org even if that sub-domain
>points to a server that Cine manages 
>
>Best regards 
>
>
>From: "Guy CARRÉ" <guycarre at free.fr> 
>To: "Barry De Graaff" <barrydg at zetalliance.org> 
>Cc: "Tony Publiski" <tonster at tonster.com>, devel at lists.zetalliance.org,
>users at lists.zetalliance.org, "Zeta Alliance Founders"
><founders at zetalliance.org> 
>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 3:41:51 PM 
>Subject: Re: [Users] Proposal packaging Zimlets/Extensions via OS repos
>using RPM/DEB 
>
>Thx Barry 
>
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>----- Mail original ----- 
>De: "Barry De Graaff" <barrydg at zetalliance.org> 
>À: "Guy CARRÉ" <guycarre at free.fr> 
>Cc: "Tony Publiski" <tonster at tonster.com>, devel at lists.zetalliance.org,
>users at lists.zetalliance.org, "Zeta Alliance Founders"
><founders at zetalliance.org> 
>Envoyé: Vendredi 15 Avril 2016 15:16:10 
>Objet: Re: [Users] Proposal packaging Zimlets/Extensions via OS repos
>using RPM/DEB 
>
>
>The original thought was here: 
>http://lists.zetalliance.org/pipermail/devel_lists.zetalliance.org/2016-April/000001.html
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Guy CARRÉ" <guycarre at free.fr> 
>To: "Tony Publiski" <tonster at tonster.com> 
>Cc: devel at lists.zetalliance.org, users at lists.zetalliance.org, "Zeta
>Alliance Founders" <founders at zetalliance.org>, "Barry De Graaff"
><barrydg at zetalliance.org> 
>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 3:12:22 PM 
>Subject: Re: [Users] Proposal packaging Zimlets/Extensions via OS repos
>using RPM/DEB 
>
>+ 1 for the debian packages. (Deb >>> rpm :-p ) 
>Do you plan to set up source packages too ? 
>
>Can we have more explanation about "Zimlet 2.0" ? 
>
>Thank you. 
>
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>----- Mail original ----- 
>De: "Tony Publiski" <tonster at tonster.com> 
>À: "Barry De Graaff" <barrydg at zetalliance.org> 
>Cc: devel at lists.zetalliance.org, users at lists.zetalliance.org, "Zeta
>Alliance Founders" <founders at zetalliance.org> 
>Envoyé: Vendredi 15 Avril 2016 13:02:28 
>Objet: Re: [Users] Proposal packaging Zimlets/Extensions via OS repos
>using RPM/DEB 
>
>+1 
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Barry De Graaff" <barrydg at zetalliance.org> 
>To: "Zeta Alliance Founders" <founders at zetalliance.org> 
>Cc: users at lists.zetalliance.org, devel at lists.zetalliance.org 
>Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 5:26:17 AM 
>Subject: Proposal packaging Zimlets/Extensions via OS repos using
>RPM/DEB 
>
>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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