Re: [gentoo-dev] Webapp Version of ht://dig

[Chris W]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2004 17:20:11 +0100
Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o> wrote:
> In this case, it might make sense to break ht://dig into two
> packages.  Put  the stuff that goes in /usr/bin et al into one
> package, and put the stuff that goes into /var/www into a
> separate package.

Fair enough.   I'll put some more thought into how this might be
best split.

> man 5 webapp.eclass should have the info you're looking for.

I don't think it does, that's why I asked :)

According to the man page, "Hook  scripts  can rely on these
environment variables being exported: MY_HTDOCSDIR,
MY_HOSTROOTDIR,  MY_CGIBINDIR,  MY_ERRORS-  DIR,  MY_ICONSDIR and
MY_SERVERCONFIGDIR. They correspond to the directories  listed 
in  the  Installation  Directories  section above.

"Hook  scripts  can also rely on MY_INSTALLDIR being in the envi-
ronment."

The webapp-config script exports exactly this list.  None of
these identify the name of the virtual host being installed by
webapp-config so, for example, the postinstall script cannot
create a new, obviously-named search database under /var/htdig
for that host.  Only the MY_INSTALLDIR variable is close, but I
don't think I can rely on the directory name's structure.  I
guess I could install the htdig database into a subdirectory of
$MY_HOSTROOTDIR.  Even then a configuration file needs to be
created in a fixed location (/etc/htdig currently) and the webapp
component needs to be modified to point to it.

Perhaps the VHOST_SERVER or G_HOSTNAME variable would be useful
to the post-install script.


Thanks for your time,

Cheers,
Chris W

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