On Friday, June 25, 2010 06:12:06 Ryan Rix wrote: > Hey one and all, > > Congrats on the 1.0 release, I like what I see :) As a user.. > > A lot of you probably know me around KDE, and my involvement upstream as a > packager in Fedora's KDE SIG, so, yeah, hi :) I've been hacking on RPM > packages for ownCloud since about rc1, and I have a few issues that, > afaict, are blocking inclusion in Fedora's main repositories. At some > point in the future, I would *love* to see ownCloud deployed for Fedora > users or contributors when it is more mature; it's something I've had in > mind since I first attended Frank's keynote at Camp in january. But that > requires RPM packages. Packages for ownCloud would be great to have > > But enough aimless ramblings :) > > A few things I would hope to see fixed in 1.1, or sooner even, so that we > could have an easy to deploy Fedora packages: > > Right now, the current setup for most Fedora web applications is to have > them installed into /usr/share, simply because it's impossible to predict > where the httpd is looking for web applications; it could be > /var/www/html/, or it could be some user specified location, or many > locations (on a multi-user system). After it is installed, it's implied > that users will softlink it to their webroot. > > Of course, this setup doesn't really work out of the box, as the data/ > directory wouldn't be writable by the apache user, nor should user data be > in the /usr/share tree. As a result, I've had the idea to set > /var/lib/owncloud/data as the datadir. I'm curious to know ownCloud's > multiuser plans, and how that would work with such a distropackage set up. As it is now, each user has a subdir in the data folder, which it creates if it doesn't exist yet on runtime > > Secondly, the method fedora users use, to symlink to the webroot directory, > simply doesn't work with how ownCloud calculates $WEBROOT in > inc/lib_base.php starting on line 35. The combination of __FILE__ (which > points to /usr/share) and $_SERVER["DOCUMENTROOT"] (/var/www/html) doesn't > play well together at all. That's pretty much a blocker that I would need > to fix to make this package work in Fedora... Of course, I don't know PHP > well enough to make something work. ;( We got a new webroot detection yesterday which should work with symlinks and aliases.
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