howto: set up a cyrus development environment

[ellie timoney]

Hi Conrad,

I don't know about Debian 8 currently, but if we're not considering it a
supported platform now, I expect we will once Fastmail upgrades to it. 
But we don't yet have even a vague timeline on when that will be.

I don't know much/anything about Docker.  My understanding was that the
current Docker images were more for testing purposes, and that at some
point we would start officially releasing Docker images for people who
want to run Cyrus without having to manage a whole system under it(?). 
But I don't imagine they'd be useful as development environments.

I'll keep poking around on my Debian 8 VM as I have time, and see if I
can find a fix for the errors from Cassandane.

Cheers,

ellie

On Sat, May 2, 2015, at 08:10 PM, Conrad Kleinespel wrote:
> Hello Ellie,
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I just ran the tests on the 2.5 branch. I get a lot
> less errors and no failure:
> Run: 252, Failures: 0, Errors: 42
> 
> Seeing that you have the same issue is a relief (kinda). Are Debian 8
> and Ubuntu officially supported platforms ? If not, what I'd do is just
> setup a Docker container with Debian 7.8 and see if I can run everything
> in there. I see there is a Docker repository on Phabricator. Would that
> be a solution or are these Docker containers not to be used for some
> reason ? Seeing how you took the time to write all of these
> instructions, I'm unsure.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Best regards.
> 
> -- 
> Conrad Kleinespel
> conradk at conradk.com
> +33 6 23 82 42 79
> 
> On Sat, May 2, 2015, at 10:17 AM, ellie timoney wrote:
> > > However, when running the tests with "./testrunner.pl -f pretty -j 8", I
> > > get 1 failure and 182 errors in 252 tests. That seems odd. I see no
> > > specific error messages in syslog or elsewhere, so I'm thinking I must
> > > be missing something. Have any of you experienced this ?
> > 
> > Is that against the cyrus master branch?  Do you get less errors with
> > the cyrus-imapd-2.5 branch?
> > 
> > I experienced a lot (don't recall numbers offhand, sorry) of errors
> > against master, and a lot (but fewer) against cyrus-imapd-2.5, when
> > running Cassandane on my Debian 8.0 VM, which is probably similar to
> > recent Ubuntu.  But all tests are fine for me on both branches on Debian
> > 7.8.  So I don't yet know if something has changed in recent
> > Debian/Ubuntu to cause this, or if I've just missed a step in the VM
> > setup (and consequently the instructions).
> > 
> > On Sat, May 2, 2015, at 08:20 AM, Conrad Kleinespel wrote:
> > > Hello guys and girls,
> > > 
> > > Ellie, thanks a lot for the instructions. Building Cyrus and Cassandane
> > > worked just fine on Ubuntu 15.10 :-)
> > > 
> > > However, when running the tests with "./testrunner.pl -f pretty -j 8", I
> > > get 1 failure and 182 errors in 252 tests. That seems odd. I see no
> > > specific error messages in syslog or elsewhere, so I'm thinking I must
> > > be missing something. Have any of you experienced this ?
> > > 
> > > Installing arcanist on Ubuntu was apparently as easy as "sudo apt-get
> > > install arcanist". I'll see about actually using it together with
> > > Phabricator when I make my first commit.
> > > 
> > > Best regards,
> > > 
> > > Conrad Kleinespel
> > > conradk at conradk.com