Sometimes it is just quicker to test the building of a CentOS package locally, than to wait for the OBS server to build it. You also get a chance to search the BUILD directory for files that you might be
Kolab Integration Tests with Selenium and Python
For Quality Assurance, it is important that the testing of functionality can be automated. Depending on the detail of the tests, the tests are called Unit Tests or Integration tests. This article shows how to write tests in Python, and
HowTo improve Debian packages using OBS
This is a quick tutorial how to branch packages on OBS (hosted by Kolab Systems), for improving the Debian packages. Please see also the step by step instructions in the Kolab documentation. My steps show how to fix the bug
Nightly builds of Kolab for CentOS and Debian
The nightly builds for Kolab have been running nicely for a while, and they are now compiled on the Kolab Systems OBS server. Now I have added Debian packages too. This might help other people interested in packages for Debian
Downloading from OBS repo via php proxy file
The default port for the Open Build Service for the published repositories is 82. If you are using the Internet through an http proxy, this can cause trouble, as it did for me when I wanted to install from the
Easy start for OpenPetra developers
Steps to reproduce the video tutorial: See full instructions in OpenPetra Wiki Make sure .Net 4 is installed Install SharpDevelop Install NAnt Install 7zip Download and unzip nightly build of OpenPetra Update August 2015: the nightly build is now hosted at
Mirror a bazaar repository from Launchpad to Github
This is a summary of the thread in the OpenPetra Forum: mirroring bzr to github The goal is to get all the version history of lp:openpetraorg into a repository at Github. I have started mirroring our bzr trunk to a
kontocheck available for CentOS and Debian as php package
With the coming switch in Germany from Bank account number and banking sort code (BLZ) to IBAN and BIC, there are quite some tasks to accomplish. One task is to convert the bank account numbers to the new IBAN number.
Notify all users logged in over X2Go on their graphical desktop
I am providing now a server for development of OpenPetra, with X2Go desktop remoting.See more details at https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/openpetraorg/index.php?title=Hosted_development_workstation To save costs, I am running the server on a jiffybox, which costs less when you freeze it. So I am providing a
Install Kolab3 on Jiffybox
When running setup-kolab, after a timeout during the set up of the 389 Directory Server, see /var/log/kolab/setup.error.log: Failed to create semaphore for stats file (/var/run/dirsrv/slapd-kolab.stats). Error 13.(Permission denied) There was already a mounted tmpfs, but the directory /dev/shm was not