[xwiki-dev] XWiki Gentoo Linux ebuild

[Artem Melentyev]

Hi, Sergiu.

Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
> On 5/8/07, Artem Melentyev <melenartem at ya.ru> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> That's what it does? Hm, wrong behavior, indeed.
> And yes, the standard USE flag is "source", my bad.
I think source use flag should make only source zip, without libs and 
docs, so I think 'use source && java-pkg_dosrc core/src/main/java' is 
sufficient. This source zip may be using in IDE for example.
WDYT?

>> > 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.
> 
> For the moment, the ant build is fine. Let's hope that until it will
> become deprecated (around 2.0?) Gentoo will have better support for
> maven builds. One more reason to always keep the ant build up2date.
Ok

>> > 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.
> 
> So, we use our own jetty, and not an emerged one, right? What if the
> user used the tomcat flag? Shouldn't /etc/init.d/xwiki check the
> status of mysql and tomcat instead?
If user will USE=-standalone then /etc/init.d/xwiki will not be installed.
If user will USE=tomcat, then he needs to configure xwiki manually for now.
I think it is possible to configure mysql/pgsql in
# emerge --config xwiki
pkg_config() function in ebuild.
ebuild will ask user the root password for mysql/pgsql and create xwiki 
database.

> Speaking of mysql, we could also provide some flags for choosing the 
> database.
Yes. I plan to support hsqldb, mysql and postgresql in ebuild.

>> > 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.
> xwiki.jar is OK for me as the default behavior.
Ok

-- 
   Artem Melentyev, UralSU, CS401