Hi, I packaged Webware 0.8.1 as a Mandrake RPM for my own use. I still have a few things to do in order to make it robust enough to submit it to Mandrake but at least I can install and remove the core RPM without any trouble. Mandrake convention is to separate the doc and devel RPMs from the core so I am working on how to package the doc RPM properly. The way that Webware is packaged in the tarball with a separate Docs directory per "kit" as opposed to one global Docs directory made it more difficult to package but with the help of a kind fellow on #mandrake, I was able to get it done. Now, I am working on packaging the Apache modules as distinct modules, mod-webkit and mod-webkit2. Questions:
1. Where should the core Webware directory be installed? I put it in .../python/site-packages/ for lack of a better place. I thought of installing it in /opt or /usr/local but if Webware is packaged as an RPM and available eventually through the Mandrake contribs source, there is no need to put it in there. Besides, site-packages seems to be a good place to put Python packages anyway. 2. At the moment, MakeAppWorkDir.py needs to be run manually to create one's working directory. I was thinking of running this script from my own RPM and then installing the Apache module and conf files in the appropriate places in /etc/httpd/. I am not completely sure how I would pass parameters to MakeAppWorkDir to create a given working directory and corresponding conf file but I have a few ideas. I have never warmed up to the idea of contexts in Webware and prefer to just have WebKit listening on different ports for different applications. Is that good practice? Any further ideas on how to better package Webware as an RPM would be appreciated. -- Regards, Clifford Ilkay Dinamis Corporation 3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419 Toronto, ON Canada M4N 3P6 +1 416-410-3326 ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
