Package: serendipity Version: 1.0.2-1 Severity: normal
Hi! S9y seems to be nice, but when you want to use a remote database server for your installation, there are some pitfalls: 1) You can't choose a remote DB server right from the start, but have to edit your dbconfig-common file and add a remote server by hand. It would be nice to a have the choice without this manual intervention. 2) Even worse, there is a small mismatch of used variables either in the config or in the code. I've described that in my blog. Here's an excerpt: ---------- And additionally, the Debian package of s9y has some issues when using a remote database. You can't start with a remote config using dbconfig -common (which is a really nice thingie on itself), but you have to abort the current debconf run, edit your config file of s9y in /etc/dbconfig-foobar/ and (really important!) fix a bug in /etc/serendipity/database.inc.php: Instead of $dbserver='yourserver'; it has to be $dbhost='yourserver';, because database.inc.php is being sourced in /usr/share/serendipity/www/serendipity_config_local.inc.php which has the following line: $serendipity['dbHost'] = $dbhost; So, it's really unlikely that s9y will ever know where your database server is. Alternatively you can change that line in /usr/share/serendipity/www/serendipity_config_local.inc.php, of course. ---------- I hope you can get this fix in for Etch... Regards, Ingo -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages serendipity depends on: ii apache [httpd] 1.3.34-4 versatile, high-performance HTTP s ii apache2-mpm-prefork [httpd] 2.2.3-3 Traditional model for Apache HTTPD ii dbconfig-common 1.8.28 common framework for packaging dat ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.8 Debian configuration management sy ii libapache-mod-php4 4:4.4.4-4~4 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti ii libapache2-mod-php4 4:4.4.4-4~4 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti ii mysql-client 5.0.26-2 mysql database client (current ver ii mysql-client-5.0 [mysql-clie 5.0.26-2 mysql database client binaries ii php-cache-lite 1.7.2-2 Fast and lite data cache system ii php-http-request 1.3.0-3 provides an easy way to perform HT ii php-net-socket 1.0.6-2 PHP PEAR Network Socket Interface ii php-net-url 1.0.14-4 easy parsing of Urls ii php-pear 5.1.6-5 PEAR - PHP Extension and Applicati ii php4 4:4.4.4-4~4 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti ii php4-cgi 4:4.4.4-4~4 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti ii php4-mysql 4:4.4.4-4~4 MySQL module for php4 ii php4-pgsql 4:4.4.4-4~4 PostgreSQL module for php4 ii postgresql-client 7.5.21 front-end programs for PostgreSQL ii smarty 2.6.14-1 Template engine for PHP Versions of packages serendipity recommends: ii imagemagick 7:6.2.4.5.dfsg1-0.11 Image manipulation programs ii php4-gd 4:4.4.4-4~4 GD module for php4 ii ttf-bitstream-vera 1.10-7 The Bitstream Vera family of free -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
