[Mageia-webteam] Initial hosting requirements for maintainers db

[Romain d'Alverny]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 02:36, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
> Le mardi 11 janvier 2011 à 23:07 +0000, Kosmas Chatzimichalis a écrit :
>> The initial requirements for installing the maintainers db in the
>> mageia server are: [...]
>> 1. RVM (Ruby version manager)
>
> From what I know, that would likely mean compiling our own ruby version
> on the server, using its own separate set of gems. In term of work, it
> would like adding a specific chroot, or a special vm of a different
> distribution just to host the application. ( different distribution
> since that would be totally unintegrated with the rest of the servers )

What's the possible alternative?

>> 2. Rubygems (1.3.7)
>> 3. Rails (3.0.3)
>
> [...] This would mean for the moment rails 2.3.10
> and ruby-RubyGems 1.3.5.

Kosmas, can you backport your app to these versions?

> Moreover, using distribution rpm give everybody the same set of module
> to work with, if the need to host/develop multiple rails applications
> arise ( and I think we cannot exclude this possibility ) without having
> to have 1 set of gems per application. And again, we will not need to
> handle security ourself ( or at least, no need to do the hard work as
> this is the goal of the security team ).

What about seeing with ruby packagers about this? (Kosmas?)

>> 5. Passenger (Apache mod_rails)
>
> As I told in my answer on the git topic, could we avoid using passenger,
> and switch to fastcgi ?

Kosmas, can you check this?


Cheers,

Romain