[Mageia-dev] mediawiki package

Fri May 6 12:11:45 CEST 2011

Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 à 12:04 +0200, Christiaan Welvaart a écrit :
+> hi,
+> 
+> The current mediawiki package puts the temporary writable config dir in 
+> /usr/share which AFAIK violates FHS - /usr should only be written during 
+> package (de)installation. I checked out the mediawiki package in fedora 
+> and I think we should use it as a base for the mageia package. Significant 
+> differences are:
+> 
+>    - tex (tetex/texlive) dependency separated into a mediawiki-math pkg
+>    - separate code (in /usr/share) from configuration (user defined, e.g.
+>      /var/www or /srv) and allow multiple wiki configs
+> 
+> I got it working on mageia cauldron after fixing installation for 
+> postgresql databases, but my package is not finished: I didn't check yet 
+> if anything should be merged from the mageia/mandriva package, and I had 
+> to configure the apache side manually, while I would expect some parts to 
+> be preconfigured.
+> 
+> So is this a good plan,
+
+Yes good plan
+
+>  and is anyone interested in (co-)maintaining such 
+> a package?
+
+We have to deploy it for the wiki, so it will likely be maintained, yes
+( not by me however ).
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
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