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

[Ahmad Samir]

On 22 July 2011 07:43, Vincent <vincent.hervieux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Without looking closely I'd say you can use something like:
%makeinstall  INST_MAN3DIR=%{_mandir}/man3

(note that the Fedora spec doesn't do this, so it mightn't be needed).

(One more thing, all package names should be lowercase if possible, so
zoneminder).

> 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
>



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Ahmad Samir