Hello List,
I am trying to create a port of the zimbra collaboration suite. I am in
contact with upstream and they are actively helping in making a port
happen.
It would be my first FreeBSD port (although I have a lot of linux
knowledge and know how to create packages for .deb).
My first steps involve right now making everything compile (Zimbra
includes *a lot* of libraries themselves instead of relying on the OS to
provide them).
I have a couple of questions though:
* Zimbra expects itself to be installed to /opt/zimbra. It is not easy
to change that, /opt/zimbra is hardcoded in a lot of places. Its a
longterm goal of mine to help clean that up, but it is not possible
right now. Are there any problems with a package which installs to /opt?
* The Zimbra source is huge, a git clone is about 13 GigaBytes. I am not
sure on how source that big is handled correctly in ports. (e.g. is it
OK that every make does a git clone and you have to wait until you get
the 13 GB of data? Would this be a problem for the FreeBSD build cluster
infrastructure to create the packages?, ...)
* On the porters handbook it says to fetch a tarball from http/ftp, is
it also possible to directly work with git and clone a repository?
This is the right place to get help started in porting? FreeBSD has so
much mailing lists :-)
Thank you,
Best
RAy
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