Bug#472802: limesurvey: looking at it
Hi there, As I'm interested in using this package in production, I am willing to spend some time fixing the packaging. I'm a Debian Maintainer with some experience mostly with Java packages. I'll commit my work to collab-maint when I get to something installable that kind-of works. Jan-Pascal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/abb32b33f1784db885c4e7e046b49d6d.squir...@www.vanbest.eu
Bug#472802: limesurvey: looking at it
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:39:03AM +0200, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote: Hi there, As I'm interested in using this package in production, I am willing to spend some time fixing the packaging. I'm a Debian Maintainer with some experience mostly with Java packages. I'll commit my work to collab-maint when I get to something installable that kind-of works. Jan-Pascal Cool! Please do discuss it with the limesurvey team as well. One of the killers in previous attempts has been handling the installation phase. The standard distribution of limesurvey requires visiting an installation web page on the server, then deleting (or otherwise disabling) the installation scripts afterwards. This is highly impractical for a Debian system, as any upgrade of the package will reinstall such scripts. What is needed is some sort of postinst script which will do the work automatically (presumably with the use of debconf questions to gather the requisite information). Good luck! Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101029091720.ga...@d-and-j.net
Bug#472802: limesurvey: looking at it
On 10/29/2010 05:17 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:39:03AM +0200, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote: Hi there, As I'm interested in using this package in production, I am willing to spend some time fixing the packaging. I'm a Debian Maintainer with some experience mostly with Java packages. I'll commit my work to collab-maint when I get to something installable that kind-of works. Jan-Pascal Cool! Please do discuss it with the limesurvey team as well. One of the killers in previous attempts has been handling the installation phase. The standard distribution of limesurvey requires visiting an installation web page on the server, then deleting (or otherwise disabling) the installation scripts afterwards. This is highly impractical for a Debian system, as any upgrade of the package will reinstall such scripts. What is needed is some sort of postinst script which will do the work automatically (presumably with the use of debconf questions to gather the requisite information). Feel free to use my work available at [1] if you want. It's now a year old. [1] http://www.nijaba.info/debian/ Nick signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Bug#472802: limesurvey: looking at it
On 10/29/2010 11:17 AM, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:39:03AM +0200, Jan-Pascal van Best wrote: Hi there, As I'm interested in using this package in production, I am willing to spend some time fixing the packaging. I'm a Debian Maintainer with some experience mostly with Java packages. I'll commit my work to collab-maint when I get to something installable that kind-of works. Collab-maint still pending, but here's a version that installs and allows you to log in as admin (not tested further): http://www.vanbest.org/debian/unstable/limesurvey_1.90plus-build9343-1~pre1_all.deb source package at http://www.vanbest.org/debian/unstable/limesurvey_1.90plus-build9343-1~pre1.dsc Cheers Jan-Pascal signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
