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Horde 6: Return of the Git Tree

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Ralf

Over the last few weekends, Horde 6 code has been merged back from the Maintaina fork and from separate contributions to the former Horde development version, “master”. It was time to upgrade the development tool chain.

Back in the Horde 5 days, there was a utility called git-tools developed by Michael Rubinsky. It would checkout all horde library and application repositories of the github organization into a development directory – also called the git tree – and link into into another structure that resembled a regular Horde 5 installation – called the web tree. This required to hardcode some configurations what could otherwise be auto-detected but it allowed to organize the horde code base in a developer friendly flat structure and provide a ready to run test scenario that reflected the latest code changes even before they were committed to the official repositories. In the days of composer, half of what git-tools does is already covered by composer itself. The git-tools shell already had an integration for the horde-components tool which manages releases, change log, housekeeping tasks and some more.

It was obvious that I wanted a similar functionality for the composer-based setups. It took a while to get this right. The good news is I achieved that. Bear with me for another paragraph of incremental learning or skip to the next section with the results.

It’s getting better all the time

Originally I integrated a generator for “vcs” type repositories into the composer.json generation code. But these vcs repositories are relatively slow. This is OK for one or two apps or leave packages but it’s really really slow when you have a list of 80 or 120 dependencies each pulled from a separate vcs repository.

The next iteration involved generating a satis repository as a standin to releasing code into packagist. The satis repository would be updated by any commit or accepted pull request in any of the serviced repositories. Generating the satis repository is not particularly fast but I managed to scope refreshs to the individual component that needed updating. Reading from satis however is way faster than the vcs approach. Keeping an installation up to date with the latest development commits became much more viable. I also figured I could replace an already installed dependency with an actual git repository and composer would update the autoloader as needed. This works as long as you don’t change the autoloader rules, i.e. upgrade a package from PSR-0 to PSR-4.

Back to #1

Checking out individual libraries as root components and doing integration tests in the satis setup worked OK when the focus was on isolating individual pain points and solving bugs. For any development spanning changes on multiple libraries, it did not work out too well. I ended up implementing a new command.

horde-components github-clone-org

This will checkout a developer tree of git repositories containing apps, libraries or themes.

total 752
drwxr-xr-x 188 root root 4096 Jan 12 11:04 ./
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4096 Dec  4 17:44 ../
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:50 ActiveSync/
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:50 Alarm/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:50 ApertureToAnselExportPlugin/
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:50 Argv/
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:50 Auth/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:50 Autoloader/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:50 Autoloader_Cache/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:50 Backup/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:51 Browser/
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:51 Cache/
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:51 Cli/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:51 Cli_Application/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:51 Cli_Modular/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:52 Compress/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:52 Compress_Fast/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:52 Constraint/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:52 Controller/
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:52 Core/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:52 Crypt/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:52 Crypt_Blowfish/
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:52 CssMinify/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:52 Css_Parser/
...
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:17 Xml_Element/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:17 Xml_Wbxml/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:17 Yaml/
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:50 agora/
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:50 ansel/
drwxr-xr-x  21 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:51 base/
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:51 beatnik/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 Jan 12 21:33 bundle/
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:51 chora/
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root 4096 Jan 13 16:54 components/
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root 4096 Jan 11 07:52 content/
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:02 dev.horde.org/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:02 dns/
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:03 folks/
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:03 git-tools/
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:03 gollem/
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:03 groupware/
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:03 hermes/
drwxr-xr-x   6 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:08 horde-installer-plugin/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:08 horde-support/
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:10 horde-web/
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:10 hylax/
drwxr-xr-x   7 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:12 iPhoto2Ansel/
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:11 imp/
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:12 ingo/
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:12 internal/
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:12 jonah/
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:12 klutz/
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:12 kolab_webmail/
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:12 koward/
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:13 kronolith/
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:13 luxor/
drwxr-xr-x  17 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:13 mnemo/
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:14 nag/
drwxr-xr-x   9 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:14 operator/
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:14 passwd/
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:14 pastie/
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:15 sam/
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:15 sesha/
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:15 shout/
drwxr-xr-x  13 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:15 skeleton/
drwxr-xr-x   8 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:16 timeobjects/
drwxr-xr-x  14 root root 4096 Jan 12 09:08 trean/
drwxr-xr-x  16 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:16 turba/
drwxr-xr-x  11 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:16 ulaform/
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root 4096 Jan 12 11:06 vilma/
drwxr-xr-x  10 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:17 webmail/
drwxr-xr-x  18 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:17 whups/
drwxr-xr-x  15 root root 4096 Jan 11 08:17 wicked/

This tree does not look like a composer based installation and would not easily work in a web browser. I did not want to reinvent composer with its autoloader and other benefits so I wrapped it into an installer. This installer creates a new copy of the horde/bundle base project and registers all the other libraries as a special type of composer repository “path”.

 /srv/git/horde/components/bin/horde-components -c ~/horde-testme.conf.php install
[  INFO  ] Installation directory is missing: /srv/www/testme
[   OK   ] Created installation directory: /srv/www/testme
Creating a "horde/bundle" project at "../../www/testme"
Installing horde/bundle (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0)
  - Installing horde/bundle (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0): Mirroring from /srv/git/horde/bundle
Created project in /srv/www/testme

When running the composer install command on this prepared setup, composer will not download the horde components from packagist or github but will use your local checkout. Only external dependencies are still downloaded from the web.

# composer install
No composer.lock file present. Updating dependencies to latest instead of installing from lock file. See https://getcomposer.org/install for more information.
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Lock file operations: 92 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
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  - Locking horde/browser (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha5)
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Writing lock file
Installing dependencies from lock file (including require-dev)
Package operations: 92 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals
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  - Installing horde/auth (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha7): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Auth
  - Installing horde/alarm (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha5): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Alarm
  - Installing horde/core (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha17): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Core
  - Installing horde/dav (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 2.0.0alpha5): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Dav
  - Installing horde/rpc (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha6): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Rpc
  - Installing horde/image (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha6): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Image
  - Installing horde/form (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha6): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Form
  - Installing horde/argv (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha5): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Argv
  - Installing horde/horde (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 6.0.0alpha7): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/base
  - Installing horde/yaml (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha5): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Yaml
  - Installing horde/cli_modular (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha5): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Cli_Modular
  - Installing horde/hordectl (v1.0.0alpha4): Extracting archive
  - Installing horde/routes (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha6): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Routes
  - Installing horde/test (dev-FRAMEWORK_6_0 as 3.0.0alpha7): Symlinking from /srv/git/horde/Test
  - Installing pear/console_color2 (0.1.2): Extracting archive
  - Installing pear/console_table (v1.3.1): Extracting archive
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Generating autoload files
Applying /presets for absent files in /var/config
Looking for registry snippets from apps
Writing app configs to /var/config dir
Linking app configs to /web Dir
Linking javascript tree to /web/js
Linking themes tree to /web/themes
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This composer environment works just like a regular installation. When you install turba, kronolith or passwd through composer, it will end up linking these apps and their library dependencies from the development tree.

Composer provides an option to copy files from the repositories rather than link the files. This would allow creating archives with artifacts for distribution packaging. The horde-components tool does not yet provide a switch to generate the necessary tweak to the repository files.

Horde Installer: Recent Changes

Posted on August 15, 2022 by Ralf

The maintaina-com/horde-installer-plugin has seen a few changes lately. This piece is run on every composer install or update in a horde installation. A bug in it can easily break everything from CI pipelines to new horde installations and it is quite time consuming to debug. I usually try to limit changes.

Two codebases merged

In the 2.3.0 release of November 2021 I added a new custom command horde-reconfigure which does all the background magic of looking up or creating config snippets and linking them to the appropriate places, linking javascript from addon packages to web-readable locations and so on. This is essentially the same as the installer plugin does but on demand. A user can run this when he has added new config files to an existing installation. Unfortunately the runtime environment of the installer plugin and the custom command are very different in terms of available IO, known paths and details about the package. I took the opportunity to clean up code, refactor and rethink some parts to do the same things but in a more comprehensible way. As I was aware of the risks I decided to leave the original installer untouched. I got some feedback and used it myself. It seemed to work well enough.

For the 2.4.0 release I decided to finally rebase the installer onto the command codebase and get rid of the older code. It turned out that the reconfigure command was lacking some details which are important in the install use case. Nobody ever complained because these settings are usually not changed/deleted outside install/update phase. As of v2.4.4 the installer is feature complete again.

New behaviour in v2.4

The installer has been moved from the install/update phase to the autoload-dump phase. It will now process the installation as a whole rather than one library at a time. This simplifies things a lot.reviously, the installer ran for each installed package and potentially did a few procedures multiple times. Both the installer and the horde-reconfigure command will now issue some output to the console about their operation and they will process the installation only once with the updated autoloader already configured. The changes will now also apply on removal of packages or on other operations which require a rewrite of the autoloader. The registry snippets now include comments explaining that they are autogenerated and how to override the autoconfigured values.

Outlook to 2.5 or 3.0

The composer API has improved over the last year. We need to be reasonably conservative to support OS distribution packaged older versions of composer. At some point in the future however I want to have a look at using composer for simplifying life

Improve Theme handling: Listing themes and their scope (global and app specific), setting default theme of an installation
Turning a regular installation into a development setup for specific libraries or apps
Properly registering local packages into composer’s package registry and autoloader (useful for distribution package handling).

Both composer’s native APIs and the installer plugin can support improving a horde admin’s or developer’s life:

Make horde’s own “test” utility leverage composer to show which optional packages are needed for which drivers or configurations
Expose some obvious installation health issues on the CLI.
Only expose options in the config UI which are supported by current PHP extensions and installed libraries
Expose a check if a database schema upgrade is needed after a composer operation, both human readable and machine consumable. This should not autorun.

The actual feature code may be implemented in separate libraries and out of scope for the installer itself. As a rule, horde is supposed to be executable without composer but this is moving out of focus more and more.

Horde 5 is coming / Horde 3 support ends

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Ralf

The spring 2012 release of the Horde Application Suite and Framework will probably be called Horde 5. In a recent discussion the majority of developers agreed on a new major revision for some changes that some view as minor backward compatibility break. Currently planned features include:

New standard UI for “traditional view”
Move of Ajax code from specific apps to a common framework
Release of a small inventory management app (sesha)
complete configuration via UI (likely)
Webmail: Write support for smartphone view
Calendar: Resource calendar support for ajax view

At the same time, Horde 3 will no longer receive any support. Horde 3 has been around since 2005 and really has reached its end of life.

Since the Horde 4 release, The Horde 3 family of applications has only received critical bugfixes and security updates, the last being released this february. You should really consider updating to Horde 4 – the transition from Horde 3 to Horde 4 has been tested and done by numerous people and the transition from Horde 4 to Horde 5 should run smoothly as both releases are PEAR based.

I have already removed all things horde3 from OpenSUSE-Factory. OpenSUSE 12.2 will not ship Horde 3 any longer. Depending on packaging progress, openSUSE 12.2 will very likely ship Horde 5 or the most recent Horde 4 release. Horde 4 maintainence will continue.

Horde 3 Packages in the server:php:applications repository (see here) will be available at least until openSUSE 12.1 runs out of maintainence. I won’t give these much attention though. Please also note Eleusis Password Manager will be dropped with currently no planned replacement.

Horde 4 submit-requested into OpenSUSE 12.1

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Ralf

Today I submit-requested the Horde 4 Application Framework and the stable apps for openSUSE Factory.
This is becoming openSUSE 12.1 if the packages get accepted on time. They are currently in review.

openSUSE Legal team wants to review all packages’ licensing – I’m sure that’s NOT the fun part of their job.

If everything works fine, openSUSE 12.1 will be the first distribution to feature horde 4 in their mainstream repositories.

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Howto: Packaging 3rd party pear channel software with %php_pear_gen_filelist macro

Posted on May 21, 2011 by Ralf

The %php_pear_gen_filelist macro, maintained by Christian Wittmer, is really handy for packaging php pear software packages. It generates rpmlint-happy filelists and if you manage to get the dependencies right, packaging pear stuff for rpm is really a no-brainer. But the standard recipe for using this macro has one drawback: It’s ignorant of installed 3rd party roles and channels. 3rd party pear packages which depend on their channel being registered normally fail.

The workaround is easy: Copy the channel file to the build location.

Example:

#
# spec file for package php5-pear-Horde_Auth (Version 1.0.3)
#
# Copyright (c) 2011 Ralf Lang.
#
# All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
# remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
# upon. The license for this file, and modifications and additions to the
# file, is the same license as for the pristine package itself (unless the
# license for the pristine package is not an Open Source License, in which
# case the license is the MIT License). An “Open Source License” is a
# license that conforms to the Open Source Definition (Version 1.9)
# published by the Open Source Initiative
# Please submit bugfixes or comments via http://bugs.opensuse.org/

# norootforbuild

Name: php5-pear-Horde_Auth
%define pear_name Horde_Auth
%define pear_sname horde_auth
Summary: PEAR: Horde Authentication API
Version: 1.0.3
Release: 1
License: LGPL
Group: Development/Libraries/PHP
Source0: http://pear.horde.org/get/Horde_Auth-%.tgz
BuildRoot: %/%-%-root-%(% -n)
URL: http://pear.horde.org/package/Horde_Auth
BuildRequires: php5-pear >= 1.4.7
Requires: php5-pear-Horde_Exception < 2.0.0, php5-pear-Horde_Util < 2.0.0, php5-pear >= 1.7.0
Conflicts: php5-pear-Horde_Exception = 2.0.0, php5-pear-Horde_Util = 2.0.0
BuildRequires: php5-pear-channel-horde
Requires: php5-pear-channel-horde
BuildArch: noarch
BuildRequires: php-macros

# Fix for renaming (package convention)
Provides: php5-pear-% = %
Provides: php-pear-% = %
Provides: pear-% = %
Obsoletes: php5-pear-% < %
Obsoletes: php-pear-% < %
Obsoletes: pear-% < %

%description
The Horde_Auth package provides a common interface into the various
backends for the Horde authentication system.

%prep
%setup -c

%build
%install
% package*.xml %-%
cd %-%
PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN=”$(which php) -d memory_limit=50m”
% %%/.channels/ % %/.channels/pear.horde.org.reg \ %%/.channels/
% -v \
-d doc_dir=/doc \
-d bin_dir=% \
-d data_dir=%/data \
-d test_dir=%/tests \
install –offline –nodeps -R “%” package.xml

% -D -m 0644 package.xml %%/%.xml

% -rf %/{doc,tmp}
% -rf %%/.{filemap,lock,registry,channels,depdb,depdblock}

cd ..

%php_pear_gen_filelist

%clean
rm -rf %

%post
if [ “$1” = “1” ]; then
% install –nodeps –soft –force –register-only %/%.xml
fi
if [ “$1” = “2” ]; then
% upgrade –offline –register-only %/%.xml
fi

%postun
if [ “$1” = “0” ]; then
% uninstall –nodeps –ignore-errors –register-only pear.horde.org/%
fi

%files -f %.files
%defattr(-,root,root)

Two parts are marked black: First you have to include the channel package with “BuildRequires:”. Second marked part copies the channel file from the installed location to the buildroot location.
Feel free to reuse or criticise this solution.

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Latest, Greatest – B1 Systems and Horde LLC on LinuxTag – passwd unofficial H4 package

Posted on May 18, 2011May 19, 2011 by Ralf

This weekend, I visited the LinuxTag exhibition in Berlin, both to support my company’s booth and to talk to the horde guys whose booth was just on the opposite side, allowing easy coordination. As a result, I adopted the passwd tool which hasn’t yet been released for H4. It’s been packaged for the SUSE server:php:applications repository and will be part of the next pre-release of the upcoming Horde 4 Demo VM. First effort was adding a new backend driver ‘horde’ which is just a proxy to horde’s configured authentication backend.

Tux all about LinuxTag

Horde 4 Alpha 1 released (pear)

Posted on March 9, 2011March 9, 2011 by Ralf

Yesterday the horde project released alpha versions of Horde Framework 4 and the Groupware apps (Notes, Calendar, Email, Filter,Address Book, Tasks)

I did a test drive and they basically work. IMP has been improved a lot and now integrates the mobile and ajax interface versions which came as separate apps in Horde 3. DIMP (Ajax version) now plays more nicely together with classic non-Ajax horde applications.

I will begin distribution packaging for SUSE Linux around the official release on April 05, 2011.

Horde 4 release date announced — Horde 3 made it into openSUSE Factory

Posted on January 27, 2011February 4, 2011 by Ralf

Michael Rubinsky of the Horde Core team yesterday officially announced a release date for Horde 4

“Horde 4 and groupware apps will be released on April 5th, 2011.”

Horde 4 is a complete re-design of the Horde Framework and will be accompanied by new major releases of the Horde-based groupware Apps like Imp 5 (Webmail), Kronolith (Calendar) and Turba (Address book).

The community has been waiting quite some time but the horde developers emphasized quality over speed. Horde is currently discussing a fixed release scheme of a new minor or major release every six months, with bugfixes and security fixes whenever they feel appropriate.

Horde 4 will be completely pear-based. Gunnar Wrobel stated that Horde 4 will consist of something around 80 pear packages and that Horde apps will be released as pear packages, too.

Beginning with the first release candidates, I will provide rpm packages for openSUSE build service. By the way, the Horde RPMs for openSUSE have been included into openSUSE Factory last weekend and might get shipped with openSUSE 11.4

List thread where the date is announced