Hi Asger,
Thanks for writing this up, your recollection is very similar to mine. One
addition I would make is that besides SSL config, the installer sets up
servlet filters, primarily for doing authentication. This may be addressed
somewhat by the FESL effort, but in the meantime auth settings can be pushed
into the fcfg file which is read by a filter that is always available. I
created a tracker item for this with your list (and some of my additions)
here: https://fedora-commons.org/jira/browse/FCREPO-504
I would like to push this further, at least to see what roadblocks we come
upon. Andrew Woods is currently in the process of reworking the code
structure as part of the move towards building with maven, so now doesn't
seem like a great time to start an unrelated restructuring task. Once the
transition to maven is under our belts, though, I intend to give this a
shot, with the help of anyone who is interested.
For now, I'd be happy to collect use-cases from anyone that sees this as
beneficial (i.e. how you can see making use of such an install method) or a
problem (i.e. how doing an install this way would make life harder for you.)
Bill
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Asger Blekinge-Rasmussen <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Interestingly, I had the same talk with
> Chris Wilper
> Bill Branan
> Dan Davis
>
> after OR09.
>
> We came up with a total redesign of the fedora install procedure. Here
> goes, from memory:
>
> 1. Fedora is just a .war file. There is no installer.
> 2. You install said war file in a tomcat.
> 3. Upon init of the war file, fedora reads /fedora/fedora.fcfg, or
> another location specified in the war files web.xml
> 4. This config file specify, among all the things it already does, the
> Fedora Home dir.
> 5. If this dir does not exist, it is created and populated with the
> nessesary stuff from the war file.
>
>
> The purpose of the current installer is primarily to set up the web.xml.
> That settings have to be set up in the web.xml is unfortunate, but
> unavoidable.
>
> The features that are set up, again from memory:
> 1. SSL endpoints
> 2. Other endpoints
>
> As far as we could establish, the SSL endpoints are somewhat odd, since
> people would probably use the tomcat in SSL, rather that the specific
> web application.
>
> The other endpoints, we envisage, are default enabled. The fedora.fcfg
> specify which class should handle requests for each endpoint, and thus
> certain endpoints could have stub implementations per default.
>
>
> Bill Branan wanted to pursue this design further, and I haven't heard
> from him since. I have yet to find a good reason for not using this
> design, but I hope to hear from others here on the list.
>
> Regards
>
> On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 17:21 +0200, Chris Wilper wrote:
> > Hi Douglas,
> >
> > Did you know the installer can run non-interactively by giving it a
> > properties file as an argument? Probably not, since it wasn't
> > documented :) But now it is, on this page:
> > http://fedora-commons.org/confluence/x/wABI
> >
> > We use this a lot for Fedora's CI tests, since they need to be run in
> > a fresh Fedora installation each time.
> >
> > Try running it interactively first, making the choices you want. Then
> > look at $FEDORA_HOME/install/install.properties. It should contain
> > things like the fedora.home choice, db choice, etc. Modify it however
> > you want for your installer, then run:
> >
> > java -jar fedora-installer-3.2.jar install.properties
> >
> > - Chris
> >
> > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, STANLEY, DOUGLAS <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I’m working on building a debian package for fedora commons, and I was
> > > wondering if there’s an alternative way to install it (i.e. not using
> the
> > > java installer)? Or at the very least, are the steps that the java
> installer
> > > takes documented anywhere? Can I peak at the source code somewhere to
> see
> > > what the steps are? Essentially, I have to install everything to a
> temporary
> > > directory that then gets tar’d up and put as part of the package, and
> trying
> > > to trick the java installer to install to this temporary directory is
> > > proving tricky. Can I just do something like:
> > >
> > > ant server
> > >
> > > to build the server stuff, then copy the files it builds? Is there
> more
> > > that the installer does?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Doug
> >
> >
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