There are some packages (e.g. horde, webcollab, sql-ledger, etc.) where it
would be useful to be able to install multiple instances under a single
OpenPKG instance. The ones I've come across generally are web applications
that run under apache, and run under their own director(y|ies) with the
appropriate Apache configuration files.
One way to do this would be to have an option containing a list of
installation directories, and have the %install portion of the SPEC file
loop through these. Another might have the installation directories
specified in a file on the system, and an option pointing to that file.
This file could be in the %{l_prefix}/etc/package directory, and specified
as %config(noreplace) (which would requir some pre-installation work before
installing the first time).
The Apache configuration could be simplified by adding a single include
spec (Include "%{l_prefix}/etc/apache/package/*.conf") with each instance
having its own file in the directory to eliminate the necessity of editing
a single configuration file.
Bill
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