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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Webapp Version of ht://dig
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 16:20:15
Message-Id: 200406201720.11914.stuart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Webapp Version of ht://dig by Chris W
1 On Sunday 20 June 2004 10:04, Chris W wrote:
2 > ht://dig is also listed as requiring webapp-ification in bug
3 > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53855
4
5 That'll be because it relies on the deprecated webapp-apache eclass.
6
7 > After having a quick look at it on Friday I thought that htdig
8 > doesn't fit well with the webapps mindset. The bulk of the
9 > package is executables for index creation/maintenance that are
10 > currently installed into /usr/bin et al. Only htsearch and
11 > support HTML/images go into the website directories. While I
12 > could maintain that separation under webapps, with a single set
13 > of binaries, it would disallow the multiple version support in
14 > the webapps concept. Should the binaries be put somewhere else?
15
16 In this case, it might make sense to break ht://dig into two packages. Put
17 the stuff that goes in /usr/bin et al into one package, and put the stuff
18 that goes into /var/www into a separate package.
19
20 > I also could not see a clean way for a post-install script to
21 > create a separate index databases, configuration files, and
22 > search page HTML (per VHOST) given the limited information
23 > available to the script. Perhaps I have missed an available
24 > environment variable identifying the VHOST name or some such.
25
26 man 5 webapp.eclass should have the info you're looking for.
27
28 Best regards,
29 Stu
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Webapp Version of ht://dig Chris W <gentoo@×××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] Webapp Version of ht://dig Daniel <dragonheart@g.o>