ZCS 6.0.1 ported to FreeBSD7

[bebekmacho]

solko,

where can I find your precompiled 690 zimbra packages? and if I want toupload my packages, which directory should I tar?

I'm not sure I still have my icq but if you please, add my skype. it's bebekmacho. thx.

note:
please give me your skype name so I can add. I also using yahoo messenger.

[solko]

Originally Posted by bebekmacho

solko,

where can I find your precompiled 690 zimbra packages? and if I want toupload my packages, which directory should I tar?

I'm not sure I still have my icq but if you please, add my skype. it's bebekmacho. thx.

note:
please give me your skype name so I can add. I also using yahoo messenger.

bebekmacho was kind enough to provide me with login/pass to his machine which solved the problem in a minute..

you *can't* use a symbolic link for /opt/zimbra to other directory.
if you want /opt/zimbra to reside on another slice/fs, please, use nullfs to achieve desired behaviour.

/etc/fstab:
/usr/home/zimbra.solko /opt/zimbra nullfs rw 0 0

command line:
mount_nullfs /usr/home/zimbra.solko /opt/zimbra

alternatively, switch to ZFS as You all should! :-)

http://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/GNR_on_F...ommon_mistakes

[bebekmacho]

Solko,

Great thanks for your help on my server last night. I learn something new and very useful. I'm looking forward on the GNR 7.x then.

[solko]

Zimbra on FreeBSD - Zimbra :: Wiki

that wasn't fun at all, zimbra-devs.

EDIT1: upgraded from 6.0.4 to 6.0.13 on my production zimbra server.
EDIT2: added GNR-6013 build guide.
EDIT3: added GNR-6013 install guide.

[solko]

Zimbra on FreeBSD - Zimbra :: Wiki

now that's more than 2 years of Zimbra on FreeBSD! keeping the patch in the main tree would be way less work .

this thread is dedicated to GNR, please, use this thread for HELIX.

[dhape]

I'm currently downloading the source package to try the i386 version. Our production mail server is amd64, but the only machines I have to test with right now are 32 bit.

If Zimbra works as advertised and I can get away from The Horde, then I can get all those (whiny) iPhone and Blackberry users to stop using Google Calendar instead of the house system.

[jhelfman]

Have you created an actual FreeBSD port for this?

Thanks!
jgh

[solko]

Originally Posted by jhelfman

Have you created an actual FreeBSD port for this?

Thanks!
jgh

this is as close as you can get. building a real port would require extensive patching to allow for building/running outside of '/opt/zimbra' which is not really worth it in the long run (and may break more things than we imagine). i still hope that one day zimbra team will just take over and do their own bsd-based builds.

[solko]

GNR-6015

please, see the patch notes before doing any rush decisions . backup your /opt/zimbra before upgrade. zfs snapshot is the fastest way. backup your zimbra-rundeps packages via:

pkg_create -Rnb zimbra-rundeps-6.0.X

FreeBSD-8 and FreeBSD-9 packages.