MJ Ray wrote:

"Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com> wrote: [...]

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Firstly, what is the status of the ITP? Chris (part of the upstream Koha team) told me in #koha that in Lenny the dependencies are all resolved, so I guess that all that remains is to package Koha itself.

I've asked Chris Cormack about that on #koha just now. I thought we're still two short: Class::Adapter and SMS::Send.

It will be easy to put them in lenny-backport if needed.

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How far along are you with that?

There's the collab-maint tree that you're probably aware of. I'm currently testing a clean install at a client site.

The thorny problems are the ones where the koha installation usually "interferes" with mysqld and wider system settings.

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I looked briefly at upstream yesterday, and it seems to me that at a minimum you will want a -common package (due to the large amount of architecture-independent data files) and as there are apparently 50MB of translation files, possible also seperate koha-language-<ISO 639> packages.

Yes, I'd agree with that split as a minimum. I'm open to suggestions about whether we want libkoha-perl and koha packages split or not.

collab-maint tree is a work-in-progress I did and that I never had time to complete. It already splits koha into several packages more or less automatically (ie manual debian/rules target to (re-)create all language packages in debian/control, ...) For now, the koha is split in: Package: koha-config: koha-config provides several files and scripts used by the other koha package to handle its configuration. This package will be automatically pulled when needed. [see below for more information] Package: koha-common: This package include base-files of koha. Unless you have very specific needs, you would like to install koha-zebra or koha-nozebra that provides a default configuration. Package: koha-nozebra Koha-nozebra is dedicated to small libraries who need who do not need the power of the IDZebra search engine. Package: koha-zebra Koha with zebra Package: koha-zebra-pazpar2 Koha with zebra and pazpar2 (not ready at all since pazpar2 is not yet packaged) Package: koha-zebra-server This package configures an instance of IDZebra to be used with Koha. Package: koha-pazpar2-server This package configures an instance of PazPar2 to be used with Koha. Package: koha This metapackage install the full-featured koha system (koha-zebra) and all Koha localisation packages. Package: koha-l10n-XX This package contains the localization of Koha in XXXXXXX Idea: * koha-config and koha-common are helper packages (not really useful on their own) * koha-nozebra, koha-zebra, and koha-zebra-pazpar2 are mostly empty packages that only depends on koha-common and koha-config and provide a good default configuration. * koha-zebra-server and koha-pazpar2-server can be installed on other host than the koha web-application (so koha-zebra recommends koha-zebra-server but does not depend on it) Managing mysqld settings is not really a problem: dbconfig-common is here to help. But I hit several problems: - the perl parser must be selected system-wide. I already wrote on the Koha ML to ask them to manually select the parser directly in the Koha code. I do not know if all required modification have been done - several configuration files (in particular /etc/koha/koha.conf) are used by different programs that will be in different packages. I need to know a precise description of all settings (in particular all settings in /etc/koha/koha.conf) and I need to know which programs use each of them => note to koha developers: it would be easier if different programs have different configuration files - koha comes with a lot of scripts/utilities in /usr/share/koha/bin I need a description of their goal and of their use (how and when should we use them) I will try to setup a wiki page with all these questions. When they will be answered, it will be possible to finish the Debian Koha packaging. And any help is welcome of course. Regards, Vincent -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanjean@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial pacakges: http://www-id.imag.fr/~danjean/deb.html#package APT repo: deb http://perso.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main