[Mageia-dev] mediawiki package

Fri May 6 12:24:53 CEST 2011

On Fri, 06 May 2011, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
+
+> 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
+
+Interesting. To allow multiple wikis with same code, it can be done
+in the config file, after setting some variable in the vhost config, the
+config file use this variable to decide which config to load.
+
+However the config file is usually created by mediawiki itself, by the
+install steps in mediawiki, when the database is created. If the config
+file is already there, the database will not be created by mediawiki.
+I don't know how it can be done automatically during package install.
+I will look at fedora package how they do this.
+
+> 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.
+
+Yes. However, it should not prevent using the package with something
+else than apache, or with different settings.
+
+Maybe this config can be done by a subpackage ?
+
+> So is this a good plan, and is anyone interested in (co-)maintaining such a 
+> package?
+
+Yes, it looks like a good plan. I'm interested in co-maintaining, as we
+plan to use this package to host the mageia wiki.
+
+