On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Aug 14, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 10:02 PM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On Aug 10, 2011, at 2:40 PM, Thomas Mortagne wrote: >>> >>>> Hi devs, >>>> >>>> I started with Guillaume Fenollar last week to do an experiment on an >>>> XWiki debian package. >>>> >>>> We got something pretty nice and I cleaned it up and added some >>>> features today. You can see it on >>>> https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-debian. >>> >>> The README at >>> https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-debian/blob/master/README says: >>> "Debian/Ubuntu Package(s) of XWiki built using maven." >>> >>> Shouldn't it say "XWiki Enterprise" instead? Also shouldn't it mention that >>> it's packaging Tomcat and MySQL too? >> >> Yes it should say "XWiki Enterprise". >> >> It's not packaging anything, it has a dependency on it. And anyway at >> this level it's only about XWiki Enterprise as debian package, there >> is potentially not only Tomcat and there is not only MySQL (there is >> already a PotgreSQL package as I said already). > > hmm I think I don't understand something then. I thought it was like defining > a pom.xml but using the Debian DEB dependency syntax. Thus I thought that > you'd have to explicitly put a dependency on MySQL or Tomcat inside the file > where you define the dependencies. Isn't that so?
Nop it's not that simple unfortunately, you can find an example on https://github.com/xwiki-contrib/xwiki-debian/blob/master/xwiki-enterprise-debian-tomcat/xwiki-enterprise-debian-tomcat-mysql/src/deb/control/control. That could not work as you expect anyway I think since I doubt it would be possible to know the right debian package id by looking at the maven package since it's usually not exactly the same. > > Is it possible to define several dependencies (like PostGreSQL and MySQL) in > the same file and then have the user choose which one to install when > resolving the file at runtime? I don't think so since dependencies are downloaded before your install script is executed in Debian. That's the reason why I did several packages actually since letting the user choose the database to use is pretty easy. > > In any case I think it means we're going to support only some dependencies > and not all that exist and thus we should document somewhere which one we > support. Not sure what you mean here. We currently provide Tomcat/MySQL and Tomcat/PostgreSQL based packages, there will maybe be more later, maybe not but apart from listing them I don't see what you want to document more. > > Maybe I misunderstood something? > > Thanks > -Vincent > >>> >>>> With my latest commit I think it's now clean enough to be moved on >>>> https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-platform. >>> >>> I don't understand why you're proposing to move it to the platform. It >>> seems to me it's an XE packaging and not a Platform packaging. >> >> I meant moving it in standard, so yes XE just wrote it too quickly. >> >>> >>> More generally we need to decide what packages we want to officially >>> support as a dev team. >>> Should we support them all: RPM, DMG, etc? should we only support some? >>> >>> Personally I think it's ok to add support for as many platforms as we want >>> provided 1) that the quality is good enough (otherwise it generates lots of >>> questions on the lists and doesn't give a good image of the XWiki project) >>> and 2) that we have an active committer willing to support it. In case this >>> committers goes away or becomes inactive on this distribution we shouldn't >>> hesitate to move it to xwiki-contrib. >>> >>> Regarding the work you started I think it could be ok to start making it >>> part of our official sources provided you agree to maintain it and make it >>> to a high quality standard. >> >> Of course. Also note that Debian package is not just one package among >> others in this case since we always use Debian internally ourself. It >> would be harder to maintain any other package I guess. >> >>> >>> WDYT? >>> >>> Thanks >>> -Vincent >>> >>>> >>>> WDYT ? >>>> >>>> Here is my +1 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Thomas Mortagne >>> _______________________________________________ >>> devs mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thomas Mortagne >> _______________________________________________ >> devs mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
