[xwiki-dev] XWiki Gentoo Linux ebuild

[Artem Melentyev]

Hi Sergiu.

Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> Some other USE flags I'd like to see:
> src - for checking out the sources, too. You could check the status on
> "ant src.dist"
There are standard use flag "source". xwiki ebuild use 
core/src/main/java sources.
Current ant src.dist target make only doc, lib (no need in 'source' flag 
IMHO), and some resources but no sources. I think it is wrong behavior.

> doc - runs "ant doc" and places the generated documentation in
> /usr/share/docs/xwiki/
ok

> test - runs the tests, too
ok

> I don't like the fact that it uses the 1.0 branch. It is not something
> stable, I don't recall any ebuilds using something dynamic as the
> source. We could have some other USE flags for this.
> An ebuild should always have a stable tagged source, meaning that an
> ebuild will have the used xwiki version. So the first ebuild could be
> called xwiki-1.0.RC4 (or we can wait for 1.0), which checkouts sources
> in xwiki/tags/XWIKI_1_0_RC4.
ok. In next version i will use stable tag.

> We can override this with USE=trunk, which will checkout the sources 
> from trunk.
I think it is better to use a separate ebuild for trunk version 
(xwiki-svn-9999.ebuild for example). Some ebuilds do so 
(sys-apps/initng-9999).

> Another option which will be needed shortly is USE=mvn, which compiles
> everything with maven.
It is much harder. maven2 building in gentoo has some problems. It is 
using only in java-experimental overlay and very experimental :).
There are even (failed:() GSoC07 project in support maven2 in ebuilds :)
Some ebuilds using build.xml generated by maven.
http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/wiki/Maven_Notes
I think in ebuild for 1.0.*  maven2 support is minor. If I find some 
time, I will look at maven2 status in java-experimental overlay.

> What exactly does "/etc/init.d/xwiki start/stop" do?
Init script will start/stop jetty in standalone xwiki. 
/usr/share/xwiki-svn-1.0/standalone/
For now it is use following command:
su - xwiki -c "${JAVA} ${JETTY_OPTS} -jar start.jar" >> \
  /var/log/xwiki.log 2>&1 &
Maybe it is not best variant.
jetty-5.1.3-r1.ebuild in java-overlay uses /extra/unix/bin/jetty.sh 
script which I find not in xwiki standalone.

> What is the default build target? Or the user has to choose at least
> one of war, tomcat...?
Default ant build target = release. But if user do not select any use 
flags he gets only /usr/share/xwiki*/lib/xwiki.jar :)
We need to consider default behavior for this ebuild.

Thanks for feedback.

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   Artem Melentyev, UralSU, CS401