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On 06/13/11 01:44, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: |
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> On Friday 10 of June 2011 20:08:00 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:37:46 -0500 |
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>> Matthew Summers <quantumsummers@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> After consultation and discussion at length with several developers, I |
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>>> am writing to announce the impending revival of the tool known as |
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>>> app-admin/webapp-config effective immediately. |
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>> You might want to chuck it out and start from scratch... |
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>> Much of the difficulty with the original webapp-config was that it was |
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>> designed to work on Windows. Stuart's plan was to create a distribution |
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>> and operating system independent way of dealing with web apps, sort of |
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>> like CPAN; Gentoo was merely the testbed. If your goals don't match |
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>> that, you're probably better rethinking everything than trying to revive |
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>> something that was designed for a completely different purpose. |
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> Also, for pure Gentoo needs it may be better to replace webapp-config with |
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> package manager and eclasses. |
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How does that handle multiple installs etc.? |
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> So to install web apps to /usr/share or sth and provide apache config files to |
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> set up those webapps like Debian does for instance |
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ZOMG NOES. |
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That stuff is horrible, it randomly patches the webserver config |
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wrongly, then restarts the webserver - so installing nagios knocks out |
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your apache. Which then makes for some funny debugging ... |
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Let's aim higher than that, please, I don't want random misbehaviour :) |
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- so dispatch-conf would be |
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> utilized for tracking config file modifications and uninstall via unmerge |
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> One major obstacle is that we have quite a number of web servers to support if |
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> we're to provide out of the box experience for those web apps. |
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So provide a default config for, say, apache, and then figure out if |
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that can be transcribed to others easily. Maybe it can be turned into |
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simple templates to generate all configs from? |
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Patrick Lauer http://service.gentooexperimental.org |
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