[Pkg-giraffe-discuss] Kopano etc.

[Guido Günther]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 08:42:29PM +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
> Hello Marco,
> 
> you don't need to address me directly or in CC, I'm subscribed to
> pkg-giraffe-discuss and will receive the message obviously.
> 
> On 26.10.2016 20:17, Marco Costantino wrote:
> > Re: webmeetings what I meant to say is that I have been able to
> > install the kopano webmeetings packages and actually use them with my
> > own turn server (i.e. not the kopano/zarafa one). A bit of a struggle
> > but I got there. What I have not done is to build the packages from
> > source, I am afraid my technical knowledge of the debian platform is
> > still lacking to be able to do this.
> 
> I can't say anything special about that as I haven't look deep enough on
> what we need to take care on later.
> If you know what settings that are needed to setup the local TURN server
> we will find a way to integrate that in a possible extra package.
> 
> > In regards to the build, I was successfully able to build the .deb
> > packages with the information you gave me below, much appreciated.
> > 
> > However I then tried to install them on debian 8 with the following
> > command:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Should I be running with some other Debian distribution?
> 
> You normally can't install binary packages from a specific platform
> (amd64, i386) on another distribution than the build platform. That
> means, package build for unstable/testing wont be installable in Jessie
> due version dependencies in most of the cases. The binaries in unstable
> build by default with gcc-6 that isn't available in Jessie, so the
> binaries can't be started there at all.
> 
> If you want to test the packages you have to use a virtual machine that
> you can build as described on the Kopano Debian wiki page:
> 
> https://wiki.debian.org/Groupware/Kopano#Using_KVM_for_testing
> 
> And the next pitfall is the use of dpkg as you did. Create a local
> repository (as described in one of my previous emails) or use apt
> directly for installation to solve all the needed package dependencies
> automatically.

What a about providing prebuilt packages on alioth for core and
webapp. I think Matthias set up an upload queue during the DGM
already. This would save people from too much hazzles. We can drop the
archive once ftp-masters accepted the packages into unstable.

Cheers,
 -- Guido