[Trac] Re: Nubie Setup questions

[Noah Kantrowitz]

Noah Kantrowitz wrote:

Edward Elhauge wrote:

Hi,

I just set up my first Trac project this week and have some
setup questions. (I have a lot of general software engineering though).

First:
    Does the latest version (0.11) have the ability to edit the
    Ticket description? Or are they immutable as they are in the
    version I have (0.10.4-2)?

They are editable in either version. You need TRAC_ADMIN permissions in both.

Sorry, that should say TICKET_ADMIN.

Motivation:
    I want to use Trac interactively and put in place holder ideas
    that get fleshed out later.

Second:
    How does easy_install interact with the Debian package system?
    I have easy_install / python-setuptools Ver 0.6c6-1

Problem:
    I set up on an Ubuntu workstation and will eventually migrate
    Trac to a Debian system. Either way it's the Deb package system.
    When I installed Trac initially I installed a bunch of the
    dependencies (Genshi, SQLite, etc) via the Deb package system.
    Then using easy_install I installed Trac. Unfortunately, when I
    did that the egg was downloaded but a lot of the linking and
    copying outside of the egg didn't seem to happen. I then installed
    Trac 0.10.4-2 via apt-get and I managed to get a working version.

    I'd like to be able to use the latest versions of Trac
    (I'll have the same problem as I start to do TurboGear app work)
    via easy_install and keep it all compatible with Deb versions.
    On the list I see people recommending that a version of Genshi
    or SQLite be upgrade (or downgraded) via easy_install to make a
    certain Trac version problem go away. If you do that, what happens
    to the version that was installed via apt-get? If the easy_install
    version replaces the apt-get version, how do I let the Deb
    system know the current version so that the dependency resolution
    still works.

    If there are outside resources that explain this, please refer
    me to them.

For 0.11 all files are kept bundled inside the egg. You can use the copystatic subcommand of trac-admin to collect all the static files if you want to serve them with Apache or something else (not important for a small, personal system).

--Noah

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