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

Fri Jul 22 08:28:20 CEST 2011

On 22 July 2011 07:43, Vincent <vincent.hervieux at gmail.com> wrote:
+> On 07/22/2011 01:46 AM, Michael Scherer wrote:
+>>
+>> 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.
+>
+> I don't have a /usr/lib/cgi-bi, but I have a /var/www/cgi-bin. Can I put
+> them into /var/www/cgi-bin/Zonedaemon ?
+>>
+>> 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 :/
+>
+> I don't know how to specify another path for those entries:
+>
+> /usr/local/share/man/man3/ZoneMinder.3pm
+>
+> In makefile I get the following:
+> INST_MAN3DIR = blib/man3
+>
+
+Without looking closely I'd say you can use something like:
+%makeinstall  INST_MAN3DIR=%{_mandir}/man3
+
+(note that the Fedora spec doesn't do this, so it mightn't be needed).
+
+(One more thing, all package names should be lowercase if possible, so
+zoneminder).
+
+> How to change this blib path not to point to /usr/local/... ?
+>
+>
+>>> - 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
+>
+> Thanks for your help!
+>
+> Vincent
+>
+
+
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+