Shouldn't the repository just contain all the pieces it needs to work, but not necessarily do an automatic config?
Mythtv can be an equally complex thing to install, but you typically (on fedora + atrpms at least) pull down the packages an then run the setup program. I attempted Koha a while back and found the dependencies to be problematic, but that's what apt and yum should resolve. Setting up security, database objects, and seeded data can come from packaged helper files and scripts, but should be run manually IMHO. Luis Jim Kronebusch wrote: >> My impression is that there isn't a strong incentive for people to >> package PHP/MySQL server apps. That is, it isn't a particularly easy >> package to create if you really want it to run out of the box with >> just "apt-get install koha" since your packaging scripts would have to >> configure the database and webserver correctly. On the other hand, >> experienced sys admins don't necessarily want packages that do that >> configuration automatically. They'd rather do it themselves. >> > > I hear you there, Koha is horrible to install. Even if you are experienced > it can be > tough. There is the Apache config, then the mysql side, but then a ton of > perl modules > and versions don't match a lot. If you have ever tried to install Koha or > watched the > Koha lists there is a ton of problems. But this is still the most widely > used Library > software that is open source from what I can tell. So if Ubuntu could find a > way to > package this it would be a huge relief for anyone trying to manage a library, > and be > another great way for Ubuntu to increase its market share. > > So the packaging nightmare and build problems are what led me to think > integration into > the Ubuntu Server platform might be the way to go. At the end of my Ubuntu > Server > install I can select "LAMP Server", that basically configures everything Koha > needs to > run on. After that it just needs to pull down a Koha package and all the > perl modules > from apt. I have talked via email to some of the Koha devels in the past and > they seem > to be struggling with a decent way to package the software and make things > easy for end > users as well. I would think they would have some interest in working with > Ubuntu to > get something like this going. And luckily their platform of choice since > the beginning > has been Debian, so it shouldn't be much of a transition. This might allow > them to > build Koha releases based off the default LAMP install in Ubuntu Server, and > the perl > modules in the Ubuntu repository. > > I could be going overboard on assumptions here, but there has to be a better > way. > > I did work with someone before to build a Koha server in VMWare to make it > easier to > distribute a working Koha server. But that also requires some more basic > users to build > a host server, then a VMWare server, then download and load the VM. I think > if what I > described above could be done, it would be a much better option. > > Jim > > -- edubuntu-devel mailing list edubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
