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Originally Posted by KevinH We are working on un-wrapping the unportable things we use today namely iptables and rpm. Those work very well on Red Hat and friends. |
iptables: If one ran with standard postfix/apache/... there would be no reason to do port remapping. At least that is my oppinion as a security conscious administrator - I trust those applications to drop privileges, and I trust my security updates for whenever a flaw is discovered. (As I understand it, iptables is only needed for port remapping, which again is only needed because postifx/apache/... is run as the zimbra user - is that correct?)
rpm: Well, if there's just one or two packages to install, the administrator will do apt-get or urpmi or rpm or whatever in order to install them - just as he does with any other package. As I see it, the need to work with rpm disappears as soon as Zimbra is distributed as "just Zimbra"
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Originally Posted by KevinH So there is no magic bullet at this time. We will get there in stages, first unwrapping the incompatible things, then allowing support for more precompiled dependencies and finally the ability to just reference an existing dependency or the source.
Getting to a Zimbra *light* also saves both you and us bandwidth so it's a good thing in the long run as well. |
As I see it, I can have postfix/apache/tomcat/openldap/mysql installed on my server in two minutes from now (apt-get install postfix openldap ...). Now, if I were to continue from there, I would need some way of telling the (also installed) Zimbra that it must call /usr/sbin/newaliases rather than /opt/zimbra/postfix/sbin/newaliases. I guess I can find out how to do that.
But is there any fundamental reason why what I am trying to do will not be possible? Something I have overlooked? (like patches to the precompiled software giving it functionality that the standard versions don't have?)
If not, I'll get right on to beating my Zimbra install with a very large hammer until it uses the standard postfix/openldap/...
I *so* look forward to seeing this run