[Mageia-dev] Need mentor(s) to become a Mageia packager

Thu Jul 21 23:46:33 CEST 2011

Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 à 16:14 -0400, Vincent a écrit :
+> Hi All,
+> 
+> I am still trying to pack ZoneMinder for Cauldron.
+> Now rpms are generated and rpmlint is not complaining, but I am still
+> sure, it's not OK :) , that's why I need help.
+> Attached is the spec file, if somebody could have a look.
+> 
+> Here are my questions:
+> - where should go the installed files? (Zoneminder provides perl
+> modules, the site itself, CGI services , doc and conf).
+
+conf -> /etc/ . I would try to see how does others distribution, to have
+at least a similar path to ease the work of people changing distribution
+
+site -> /var/www/zoneminder. Outside of the webroot, so people can
+modify it with apache configuration
+
+apache configuration -> /etc/httpd/conf.d/webapps.d/ , iirc
+
+perl module -> like the other ( maybe jq can tell us the details )
+
+cgi -> I think there is something in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, not sure. I guess
+checking other cgi would help.
+
+doc -> /usr/sharedoc, marked as such with %doc 
+
+> - some files have no path's variable:
+> /usr/share/man/lib/perl5/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod.xz
+> /usr/local/share/man/man3/ZoneMinder.3pm
+
+> ...
+> Any idea, what it should be?
+
+I do not understand the question :/
+
+> - what should be the permissions for the site under the apache server?
+
+that depend on what does the site. There is basically some people that
+say "this should be 127.0.0.1 by default", and those that say "if people
+installed it, they want to use it on a network and are able to configure
+apache properly, so it should be opened"
+
+> - should the %install section creates the database table/permissions
+> for ZoneMinder? If so, is there any example how to achieve this?
+
+Unfortunately, no. A server can be password protected, on another
+computer, or using a specific database name. 
+
+I always wanted to have a proper framework for that ( like saying "this
+is the sql file" and let some helper script take care of the rest, based
+on configuration or offering a easy to use tools to create and install
+database after installation  ), but never wrote anything :)
+
+> - should the %install section creates the service launcher scripts? If
+> so, is there any example how to achieve this?
+
+Yes. It was not migrated yet ( or maybe it was ), but this should be a
+good start :
+http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/Initscripts
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+