[Mageia-sysadm] [forums-discuss] Re: updating sysadmin privileges in forum config

Sun Mar 25 17:49:27 CEST 2012

2012/3/25 Maarten Vanraes <alien at rmail.be>:
+> Op zondag 25 maart 2012 08:24:31 schreef Wolfgang Bornath:
+>> 2012/3/24 Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org>:
+> [...]
+>
+> I do agree with misc that software used by mageia shouldn't be different from
+> what we package.
+>
+> I also agree that having nice plugins is alot better than patching code, this
+> makes for a nice and stable and tested upgrade path.
+>
+> i'm not against phpBB or php in general, i kinda like php, it has it's good
+> points.
+>
+> but nothing prevents people to implement a proper and documented API, in any
+> reasonable language.
+>
+> take for example squirrelmail. it has alot of plugins and they don't require
+> patching (except, some do, and that goes to show that the API could have been
+> better)
+>
+> another example is drupal, etc...
+>
+>
+> of course, i can understand it if no sysadmin wants to keep a patched software
+> up2date where mageia doesn't have a package...
+>
+> if there had been a package, a packager could have been doing upgrades instead
+> of only a sysadmin. and a sysadmin would've happily done the upgrade of a
+> well-tested application.
+
+But there were no Mageia packages available nor were they installed. I
+don't know why this was not discussed before forums were implemented
+(or was it?) but that's not the issue now. As I understand the current
+situation there are only 2 options:
+ - pack a package, remove the installed system and install the package
+(including language packages) and transfer the databases or
+ - go on with the current system and find a better workflow to react
+to upstream updates and customizing requests.
+
+-- 
+wobo
+