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

[L. Mark Stone]

I agree the alliance should use its own domain. 

Mark

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> On Apr 17, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Guy CARRÉ <guycarre at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> I supposed zimbra.org is owned by Synacor ?
> Which make me think that a subdomain of zetalliance.org is more approriate for independancy.
> 
>  Regards,
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> ----- Mail original -----
> De: "Jorge de la Cruz" <jdelacruz at zetalliance.org>
> À: "Guy CARRÉ" <guycarre at free.fr>
> Cc: "Barry De Graaff" <barrydg at zetalliance.org>, "Tony Publiski" <tonster at tonster.com>, devel at lists.zetalliance.org, users at lists.zetalliance.org, "Zeta Alliance Founders" <founders at zetalliance.org>
> Envoyé: Dimanche 17 Avril 2016 20:33:02
> Objet: Re: [Users] Proposal packaging Zimlets/Extensions via OS repos using RPM/DEB
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> 
> +1 
> 
> But I will suggest to use packages.zimbra.org even if that sub-domain points to a server that Cine manages 
> 
> Best regards 
> 
> ----- Mail original -----
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> 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 
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> 
> The original thought was here: 
> http://lists.zetalliance.org/pipermail/devel_lists.zetalliance.org/2016-April/000001.html 
> 
> ----- 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 
>