[Mageia-dev] mediawiki package

Fri May 6 13:35:16 CEST 2011

On Fri, 6 May 2011, nicolas vigier wrote:
+
+> On Fri, 06 May 2011, Christiaan Welvaart wrote:
+>
+>> 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.
+
+Users (well, administrators) run a script to create a wiki, this symlinks 
+index.php (which is in /usr/share) to the directory the user provided, and 
+creates a config directory where mediawiki will put the config file it 
+generates. So the website's wiki dir only contains a few symlinks, a 
+config file and an images dir (the config dir should be removed after 
+configuration, this is standard mediawiki practice).
+
+>> 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 ?
+
+It has documentation in /etc/httpd/conf.d/mediawiki.conf which can be 
+uncommented or copy/pasted into some other config file. Maybe it just 
+needs to be moved to /etc/httpd/conf/webapps.d/mediawiki.conf where I 
+think the mandriva config file was.
+
+
+     Christiaan
+