On Sat, May 14, 2005, Bill Campbell wrote:
> There are some packages (e.g. horde, webcollab, sql-ledger, etc.) where it
> would be useful to be able to install multiple instances under a single
> OpenPKG instance. The ones I've come across generally are web applications
> that run under apache, and run under their own director(y|ies) with the
> appropriate Apache configuration files.
>
> One way to do this would be to have an option containing a list of
> installation directories, and have the %install portion of the SPEC file
> loop through these. Another might have the installation directories
> specified in a file on the system, and an option pointing to that file.
> This file could be in the %{l_prefix}/etc/package directory, and specified
> as %config(noreplace) (which would requir some pre-installation work before
> installing the first time).
>
> The Apache configuration could be simplified by adding a single include
> spec (Include "%{l_prefix}/etc/apache/package/*.conf") with each instance
> having its own file in the directory to eliminate the necessity of editing
> a single configuration file.
The idea with something like 'Include
"%{l_prefix}/etc/apache/apache.d/*.conf"' is a good one, as it is
similar to the %{l_prefix}/etc/rc.d/rc.* approach.
Ralf S. Engelschall
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www.engelschall.com
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