CLIFFORD ILKAY wrote:
> 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.
That seems like a lot of work for a handful of kilobytes.
> 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.
At this point, I don't think it makes sense. Or, you'd have to put it
in site-packages/Webware, with a site-packages/Webware.pth file. And
some of the names are kind of generic (MiscUtils), and I don't like them
being generally visible for all Python programs. I think it's better to
put it is /usr/local or something like that -- then that path is added
to sys.path when starting the AppServer (but not otherwise).
> 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?
That's what I prefer, at least in my own usage. The Webware port makes
a default installation and startup script, which is kind of annoying
really (or at least distracting), since I am unlikely to use it (and I
don't think it's good style to use the main Webware installation as an
application). It would be cool to put in a
/etc/httpd/log.d/app_server_instance.conf file from MakeAppWorkDir, and
then do a Include /etc/httpd/log.d/* (which may already be set up for
Mandrake, I don't know it's configuration style).
> Any further ideas on how to better package Webware as an RPM would be
> appreciated.
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