I am about to embark on the epic journey which is Bongo packaging on the OpenSUSE Build Service. Now that I have succumbed to this task I wanted to establish a few things. In the Build service there are many many distributions available for build. Most of the distributions are very old. This leaves me with a choice as …

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For quite some time now we have been using the rPath rBuilder system to create images for the project. I have also used it for a few other projects. Things have been going quite well until someone at rPath decided that they needed to reinvent their web interface. Now I don't mind change and innovation as long as the …

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The new Bongo package has been compiled, packaged and promoted so it should now be available to those running the images. This version has a number of fixes that were highlighted by the change to the cmake compiler. Thanks to the hard work of Alex and Patrick we are now in a position to say the the mail store is now …

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I too have been watching the Mono debate with some interest as I am in the process of creating a Mono API for the Bongo Store. This interests me as I do not want to spend time working on something that will stop any distribution from running such a great app like Bongo. What worries me more is the character …

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Bongo Images and the 0.5 release I have been working on the images for the 0.5 release of Bongo and I have now completed them. They can be found here http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/bongo/latestRelease There is a change however in how we will be implementing the images from now on. I have decided that to make it …

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I have been able to rework the Bongo images to make them work. I would appreciate any testing that could be done as I do not have all the vm technologies to test. So I hope you have fun . Here is a link to the downloads

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Due to a server error where the images get built an error has crept in that make the images useless. This error has been prevalent for some time and so it has caused the images to break. I have therefore pulled the images and will try to fix the problem as soon as I can. I will post again when things get better

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Bongo 0.4 Development Images. As promised I have published the Bongo 0.4 development images. To the rPath site. This release will be quite a big step as we are upgrading the images to the rPath Linux 2 version. These are the development branch of the 0.4 bongo source I have included Spamassassin and clamav in this …

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For some time now I have been asked why I have not released the Bongo 0.4.0 packages to the Bongo rPath repo. The reason I have given is that the webUI bits for Bongo have been broken in Bongo after some major work was done on the store area of the project. The other agents we have e.g. SMTP, IMAP, POP, ANTISPAM and …

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Monsoon 0.20 packaged. I have eventually packaged the new version of monsoon for Foresight Linux. My apologies to Alan for taking so long. Life has a habit of taking over sometimes. Well I have added the new meta tags that zodman's new packagekit needs so it should have a short description about it. Please test this …

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