[KLUG Members] Re: Call for testing: Debian Packages for OpenGroupware.org

[Adam Williams]

For all you daring Debian users, here is a chance to help out the
OpenGroupware project -

(BTW, someone actually bothered to get OGo installed and running on an
X-Box - so your game console can also be your groupware server...)

> for the past couple of weeks I have been working on debian packages for
> OGo which are intended for inclusion in the debian distribution. The
> goal was to provide policy compliant packages with installation scripts
> for quick and easy deployment. Another goal was to use as many packages
> from debian as possible.
> The packages have now reached a state where I would like to have other
> developrs do some testing. Although they work fine for me they are still
> preliminary and experimental and not intended for regular use. They
> still have some flaws I know about (see below) and I expect them to
> still contain bugs. The packages are based on a cvs snapshot from early
> january, so this is not the most recent upstream version.
> A quick HOWTO:
> You can test the packages by adding this apt-source to your
> /etc/apt/sources.list:
> deb http://people.debian.org/~ley/ogo ./
> Install the package opengroupware.org which deoends on the necessary
> stuff. You should follow the recommends (apache, postgresql, webui).
> If you use a debian standard postgresql server locally, the postinst of
> the opengroupware.org package can try to set up your database according
> to your preferences. This works for me, the only thing I have to do
> manually is to adjust the access control of the database
> (/etc/postgresql/pg_hba.conf).
> After the installation, the WebUI should be running and accessible under
> http://localhost/OpenGroupware.
> Known issues:
> dpkg might run opengroupware.org's postinst prior to postgresql's
> postinst. Then the automatic set-up of the database will fail. You can
> retry with dpkg-reconfigure opengroupware.org
> Package descriptions are in a very poor state. I would very much
> appreciate some help here!
> Further plans:
> 1) Improve existing packages, add documentation, fix bugs
> 2) Change to latest upstream version
> 3) Upload to experimental and announce the packages on debian-devel
> 4) Coordinate with OGo developers the 1.0 release and an upload to sid
> (if the packages are in a decent shape then)
> If there are any questions, I am happy to answer them here!