[ubuntu-mono] Fwd: iFolder 3.7 ready to be packaged

Mon Jun 8 10:23:28 UTC 2009

Guys, we are hitting the wall here...

can you be of any help?

reply to all please, as we are not in the list :-)

regards,

Rubén Romero
https://launchpad.net/~huayra

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Rui Boon <ruiboon at gmail.com>
Date: 2009/6/6
Subject: Re: iFolder 3.7 ready to be packaged
To: Rubén Romero y Cordero <huayra at ubuntu.com>
Cc: egil.moller at freecode.no

Hi Rubén and Egil

Sorry for the delay, was out of the net.

The source of simias (iFolder's server) 3.7 is available from the bzr
repo. This code is buildable and runable. However, I did not have the
time to merge the new 3.7 client code into the repo.

Things that have to be done.
   - Merge Novell's source (client) into the bzr repo
   - Apply certain patches
   - Then build the client side (the Novell's source is buildable)
   - After which, try to get the client talking to simias

Patches
You will need to remove 001_lib_name and 003_use-system-gsoap patches
from debian/patches/00list as this was only relevant to the old code.
002_disambiguate_progress is still needed to change "Process[] processes
=" to "System.Diagnostics.Process[] processes =", but the line number
might have changed.

Building
This is the build-depends string that i have used in debian/control,
hope it will be useful. (Things might have change though)
Build-Depends: dpatch, debhelper (>= 5), pkg-config, cli-common-dev (>=
0.4.4), gconf2, libsimias-dev, libgtk2.0-dev, simias,
libstdc++5,automake1.9, autoconf, mono-mcs, libtool,uuid-dev, gsoap,
libgnome2.0-cil

Testing
Things got a bit tricky at this part as it keep giving out the
DomanAccountAlreadyExists Exception. Up till now, I still cannot figure
how to solve this. Maybe i could suggest getting a opensuse installation
and try to install Novell's binary ifolder server, simias. After which,
try to get the client that we have built to talk to it. I suspect that i
might have missed out certain things in simias.

Unfortunately, I could not contribute as much as I would like to thus
the job of getting iFolder 3.7 into Ubuntu would fall on you guys.
Thanks to Rubén for raising the awareness of iFolder through your blog
and helping to get others involve. Also thanks to Egil for voluteering
the time to get this done. This is the time where the Ubuntu Community's
spirit is burning!

Cheers
Rui Boon

Rubén Romero y Cordero wrote:
> Hi Rui Boon,
>
> Hope you are doing well.
>
> If possible it would be great if you could give us intructions on how
> you build the package for iFolder 3.7 as a friend of mine (Egil,
> copying him in this email) might be able to do it for all of us :-)
>
> So please answer this email with some pin point if you can and we'll
> see what we can do.
>
> iFolder 3.7 awesomeness in Ubuntu would be great!
>
> Regards,
>
> Rubén.
>
> 2009/4/13 Rui Boon <ruiboon at gmail.com <mailto:ruiboon at gmail.com>>
>
>     Rubén Romero y Cordero wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Rui Boon <ruiboon at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ruiboon at gmail.com>
>     > <mailto:ruiboon at gmail.com <mailto:ruiboon at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     Ruben Romero wrote:
>     >     [...]
>     >
>     >     > R.
>     >     >
>     >     Hi Ruben
>     >
>     >     I have only managed to compile Simias, the server component of
>     >     iFolder,
>     >     under Ubuntu. However, I keep running into "Error: exception
>     Object
>     >     reference not set to an instance of an object. Could not
>     initialize
>     >     collection store." when starting it. Usually, this can be fixed
>     >     easily,
>     >     but time is not on my side since I will be enlisted into
>     military
>     >     service tomorrow.
>     >
>     >     Currently, I'm tidying up the modification made and will be
>     >     pushing them
>     >     to launchpad repo soon. I certainly hope that, in the spirit
>     of open
>     >     source and collaboration, this small step will help other
>     packagers to
>     >     be able to continue with this work.
>     >
>     >     If you, or anybody else is interested, you may get the
>     source by "bzr
>     >     branch lp:~ifolder-dev/simias/trunk-packaging"
>     >
>     >
>     > Fantastic work!
>     >
>     > I revised the whole trunk for the iFolder project (simias and
>     ifolder)
>     > and saw that you have been the only actual contributor to this
>     package
>     > the last year. I am going to blogg about iFolder on the planet
>     to see
>     > if we can catch some attention to get other people interested
>     and get
>     > this fantastic piece of software packaged for Ubuntu and jhopefully
>     > debian too.
>     >
>     > I am going to write it as a follow up from my last mono post on
>     Planet
>     > Ubuntu: *http://huayra.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/mono-you-do
>     > *
>     > Wish you the best on your compulsory military service. Hope to hear
>     > from you if you have time for the Ubuntu world. We will be
>     waiting for
>     > you :-)*
>     >
>     > *
>     >
>     >
>     >     --
>     >     Cheers
>     >     Rui Boon
>     >
>     >
>     > Best regards,
>     >
>     > Rubén R.
>     Good news here. Managed to get simias to run. Just need to follow the
>     instruction at
>     https://help.ubuntu.com/community/iFolderEnterpriseServer
>     under "Setup environment"
>
>     (Not enough time to get my hand on the client though)
>
>     --
>     Cheers
>     Rui Boon
>
>
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