[Mageia-dev] Need mentor(s) to become a Mageia packager

[Vincent]

On 07/22/2011 01:46 AM, Michael Scherer wrote:
> Le jeudi 21 juillet 2011 à 16:14 -0400, Vincent a écrit :
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I am still trying to pack ZoneMinder for Cauldron.
>> Now rpms are generated and rpmlint is not complaining, but I am still
>> sure, it's not OK :) , that's why I need help.
>> Attached is the spec file, if somebody could have a look.
>>
>> Here are my questions:
>> - where should go the installed files? (Zoneminder provides perl
>> modules, the site itself, CGI services , doc and conf).
> conf ->  /etc/ . I would try to see how does others distribution, to have
> at least a similar path to ease the work of people changing distribution
>
> site ->  /var/www/zoneminder. Outside of the webroot, so people can
> modify it with apache configuration
>
> apache configuration ->  /etc/httpd/conf.d/webapps.d/ , iirc
>
> perl module ->  like the other ( maybe jq can tell us the details )
>
> cgi ->  I think there is something in /usr/lib/cgi-bin, not sure. I guess
> checking other cgi would help.
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 ?
> doc ->  /usr/sharedoc, marked as such with %doc
>
>> - some files have no path's variable:
>> /usr/share/man/lib/perl5/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod.xz
>> /usr/local/share/man/man3/ZoneMinder.3pm
>> ...
>> Any idea, what it should be?
> I do not understand the question :/
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/... ?


>> - what should be the permissions for the site under the apache server?
> that depend on what does the site. There is basically some people that
> say "this should be 127.0.0.1 by default", and those that say "if people
> installed it, they want to use it on a network and are able to configure
> apache properly, so it should be opened"
>
>> - should the %install section creates the database table/permissions
>> for ZoneMinder? If so, is there any example how to achieve this?
> Unfortunately, no. A server can be password protected, on another
> computer, or using a specific database name.
>
> I always wanted to have a proper framework for that ( like saying "this
> is the sql file" and let some helper script take care of the rest, based
> on configuration or offering a easy to use tools to create and install
> database after installation  ), but never wrote anything :)
>
>> - should the %install section creates the service launcher scripts? If
>> so, is there any example how to achieve this?
> Yes. It was not migrated yet ( or maybe it was ), but this should be a
> good start :
> http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Development/Howto/Initscripts
Thanks for your help!

Vincent