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<B>Vincent</B>
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<I>Fri Jul 22 07:43:27 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 07/22/2011 01:46 AM, Michael Scherer wrote:
><i> Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 à 16:14 -0400, Vincent a écrit :
</I>>><i> Hi All,
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> I am still trying to pack ZoneMinder for Cauldron.
</I>>><i> Now rpms are generated and rpmlint is not complaining, but I am still
</I>>><i> sure, it's not OK :) , that's why I need help.
</I>>><i> Attached is the spec file, if somebody could have a look.
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Here are my questions:
</I>>><i> - where should go the installed files? (Zoneminder provides perl
</I>>><i> modules, the site itself, CGI services , doc and conf).
</I>><i> conf -> /etc/ . I would try to see how does others distribution, to have
</I>><i> at least a similar path to ease the work of people changing distribution
</I>><i>
</I>><i> site -> /var/www/zoneminder. Outside of the webroot, so people can
</I>><i> modify it with apache configuration
</I>><i>
</I>><i> apache configuration -> /etc/httpd/conf.d/webapps.d/ , iirc
</I>><i>
</I>><i> perl module -> like the other ( maybe jq can tell us the details )
</I>><i>
</I>><i> cgi -> I think there is something in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, not sure. I guess
</I>><i> checking other cgi would help.
</I>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 ?
><i> doc -> /usr/sharedoc, marked as such with %doc
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> - some files have no path's variable:
</I>>><i> /usr/share/man/lib/perl5/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod.xz
</I>>><i> /usr/local/share/man/man3/ZoneMinder.3pm
</I>>><i> ...
</I>>><i> Any idea, what it should be?
</I>><i> I do not understand the question :/
</I>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
How to change this blib path not to point to /usr/local/... ?
>><i> - what should be the permissions for the site under the apache server?
</I>><i> that depend on what does the site. There is basically some people that
</I>><i> say "this should be 127.0.0.1 by default", and those that say "if people
</I>><i> installed it, they want to use it on a network and are able to configure
</I>><i> apache properly, so it should be opened"
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> - should the %install section creates the database table/permissions
</I>>><i> for ZoneMinder? If so, is there any example how to achieve this?
</I>><i> Unfortunately, no. A server can be password protected, on another
</I>><i> computer, or using a specific database name.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I always wanted to have a proper framework for that ( like saying "this
</I>><i> is the sql file" and let some helper script take care of the rest, based
</I>><i> on configuration or offering a easy to use tools to create and install
</I>><i> database after installation ), but never wrote anything :)
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> - should the %install section creates the service launcher scripts? If
</I>>><i> so, is there any example how to achieve this?
</I>><i> Yes. It was not migrated yet ( or maybe it was ), but this should be a
</I>><i> good start :
</I>><i> <A HREF="http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/Initscripts">http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/Initscripts</A>
</I>Thanks for your help!
Vincent
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