This article is an update of the previous post that built a Docker container for Kolab 3.1: Building a Docker container for Kolab on Jiffybox (March 2014) Preparation I am using a Jiffybox provided by DomainFactory for building a Docker
Installing Demo Version of Kolab 3.1 with Docker
This describes how to install a docker image of Kolab. Please note: this is not meant to be for production use. The main purpose is to provide an easy way for demonstration of features and for product validation. This installation
Building a Docker container for Kolab on Jiffybox
Preparation I am using a Jiffybox provided by DomainFactory for building a Docker container for Kolab 3.1 running on CentOS 6. I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a Jiffybox. I am therefore following Docker Installation instructions for Ubuntu for
Contributing to Kolab documentation via github/sphinx
The new Kolab 3.1 documentation is written in reStructuredText, using a tool called Sqhinx which was originally created for the Python documentation. It is much easier to edit than the Publican notation used before for the Kolab 3.0 documentation. The
Build OBS packages locally for CentOS
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
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