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

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Monday, April 18, 2016 10:26 PM +0200 David Sommerseth 
<dazo at eurephia.org> wrote:

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> On 15/04/16 11:26, Barry De Graaff wrote:
>> Dear founders,
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>> I would like to propose to start using RPM's and DEB's for the deployment
>> and install of Zimlets/Extensions.
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>> The use of DEB/RPM allows us to install Zimlets, Admin Zimlets,
>> Extensions and configuration (by way of post install scripts).
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> Not sure if it matter, but I also would love to see RPM repos for both
> Zimbra (8.7 yay!) and Zimlets.  Getting a possibility to get automated
> Zimlet updates via yum repos will be a big win!
>
> Let me know if I can help out on establishing the yum repos somehow.  I do
> have some experience doing that already.
>
> For building the RPMs ... I don't know what kind of technologies have been
> considered or chosen.  But I highly recommend to look into mock [1], which
> gives you great control of the end result.  Fedora, Fedora EPEL and RHEL
> is built using mock under the hood.  And the big plus is, if you have a
> working rpmbuild routine moving to mock is a no brainer.

Hi David,

I've no objection to using Mock as long as it is present in RHEL6.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Platform Architect
Zimbra, Inc.
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