Andreas - Thanks for the response. My Alioth account is iankarlwallace. I created it last evening so if you can add me that would be great. I will continue my reading of the Debian Med Policy/Debian Policy, grab the source code for phpmyadmin or some other larger php projects and start looking around.
Once you add me I can try checking out the git repo for openemr and starting to setup a packaging environment. Excited to start working on this. I already know that the current package places all the php files in /var/www which I think isn't the correct location for them. No worries on the delay in responses. I am currently starting a new job and having to learn EPIQ for inpatient patient charting ... that will chew up a few hours on my side. cheers ian On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> wrote: > Hi Ian, > > since I don't know whether you just subscribed to this list (please > confirm) I'll keep you in CC. Usually on all Debian lists policy says > not to CC single persons. > > On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 09:19:54PM -0700, Ian Wallace wrote: > > Andreas - I watched the video on the project to package OpenVISTA - very > > interesting. Did you guys ever actually get it packaged so that it could > > be distributed? > > We have fis-gtm as precondition packaged. There is also some > preliminary work done for OpenVISTA but I'm afraid we will not make it > until 2014-11-05 when the freeze for the next release is happening. For > sure any tester who might create the packages from source are welcome or > we might create an inofficial download location (PPA?) > > > I am ready when you are. I think a few house keeping > > items would be: > > > > 1) Whom do I contact for permission/access to the git repository that > > you'll be using so that I can checkout your template files and start > > working. > > If you created an alioth account you can ask for beeing added to the > Debian Med project. Alternatively you can just tell me your login name. > I ckecked for Ian Wallace but the seek function (which does not > necessarily work reliable) did not found your name - otherwise I would > have done it right now. > > > 2) I wanted to start with the latest release of the software 4.1.2 > release > > 5 or do you recommend starting on an older release and working up to the > > latest? > > Usually it is a good idea to start with the current version since this > is most probably your upload target. > > > 3) Do I need to create a packaging environment that matches any > particular > > version of Debian before I start? > > No. As explained in the Debian Med policy document it is sufficient to > create a chroot using pbuilder (or rather cowbuilder which has some > advantages regarding speed since it is using copy-on-write (cow)). Just > ask here if you have any trouble with this. > > > I am running Ubuntu 14.04 but can create > > a VM with Vagrant or just VirtualBox so that I can have a clean install > to > > work with. > > There are people who are working on Ubuntu and just build with pbuilder > but if you are comfortable with using VirtualBox that's fine as well. > > > 4) Since OpenEMR is really just a bunch of PHP scripts is there really > > anything to "build" or is really just shuffling around directories to > make > > it fit into the Debian Way of doing things or does dpkg expect to find a > > makefile or some kind. > > I personally do not have any experience with PHP scripts and it might be > a good idea to study the packaging of other PHP projects. I might > possibly not the best mentor in this regard but we will see what > problems we might face - perhaps I need to guide you to the right forums > in case it turns out that I'm incompetent to help. I think gforge / > fusionforge are some complex PHP systems and stealing ideas from their > packaging could help. But it could also be way to complex and you find > better examples in phpmyadmin or so. > > I think in any case you should use the existing packaging for openemr > and see how the files are moved around. Most probably this will answer > your question - otherwise please ask more precisely here. > > > I see that I have a lot of reading/learning to do. I will start by > reading > > the Debian Med Policy handbook and downloading the Debian Policy paper as > > well. > > > > Thanks with any info / help you can provide. Hope you had a wonderful > time > > on your vacation. > > I really had. BTW, I'm remaining a bit in "pseudo-vacation" since my > provider which I'm using at daytime is a pure catastrophy service wise > and currently I can only respond in (European) evening hours. So please > excuse any delays. > > > Maybe if there's another Debian Med conference sometime > > in the future I can join in - would be fun. > > The next meeting I will talk about Debian Med will be LSM > > https://2014.rmll.info/?lang=en > > and we will have a Debian Med team sprint as usual in the beginning of > next year most probably in Brittany. It would be great to see you > there (as well as any other reader of this list). > > Kind regards > > Andreas. > > -- > http://fam-tille.de > -- Ian Wallace - CCRMC DFM Staff Physician - (c) 303.681.5732
