[Koha-devel] Koha metapackage for easier installs

[Renvoize, Martin]

After the conversations, I was pro option 4 myself too.

Well summarised David.

On Wed, 14 Oct 2020, 12:17 am , <dcook at prosentient.com.au> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> As we add external dependencies to Koha (e.g. MariaDB, Elasticsearch,
> RabbitMQ, etc), there are fears that we are making Koha harder to install
> for less technical users.
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> As a result, Jonathan, Tomas, Martin, Mason, and I have been discussing*
> creating a Koha metapackage that incudes all of Koha’s external
> dependencies, so that people can keep installing Koha with a minimum number
> of steps.
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> I think we’re at a point where we now need to decide on some names for
> metapackages.
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> Mason has already commented that it would be best to leave the current
> “koha” and “koha-common” packages as they are and I think that makes sense.
> While no one uses the “koha” package, I think there is still a dream of one
> day getting Koha into the upstream Debian repositories with that package
> name. Likewise, “koha-common” is so common that we had best not change it
> any time soon.
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> Here are some naming options that have been discussed:
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>    1. Option 1
>       1. koha-lite (this metapackage installs koha-common)
>       2. koha-full (this metapackage installs koha-common, MariaDB,
>       Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, etc)
>    2. Option 2
>       1. koha-full (this metapackage installs koha-common, MariaDB,
>       Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, etc)
>    3. Option 3
>       1. koha-standalone (this metapackage installs koha-common, MariaDB,
>       Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, etc)
>    4. Option 4 (David’s Preferred Option)
>       1. koha-core (this metapackage installs koha-common)
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>                                                                i.      I
> would avoid “koha-lite” as it implies a little application whereas Koha is
> a large application
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>                                                              ii.      I
> think that koha-common is currently misnamed as it really is more of a
> “core” package than a “common” package that is shared among different
> packages or standalone applications (like postgresql-common being shared
> between client and server). However, koha-common has legacy value as a
> name.
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>                                                            iii.      In
> time, I’d like to see services like the SIP server, Z3950 responder, etc
> broken out of “koha-core” and put into their own packages. Eventually
> “koha-common” would just contain a set of core libraries that are shared
> amongst different Koha services. This would help with scalability,
> especially when using containers and other forms of modern computing.
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>    1. koha-full (this metapackage installs koha-common, MariaDB,
>       Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, etc)
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>                                                                i.      I
> would avoid “koha-standalone” as I think that it implies a package without
> dependencies, whereas ours would have several dependencies and be more in
> line with “koha-full”. This is based on some searches through Debian repos:
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>    1.
>             https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=-standalone
>             2.
>             https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=-full
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>                                                              ii.      In
> Debian, there is a nginx-full package which installs many components (e.g.
> nginx-common, libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam, etc) and there is a nginx-core
> package which installs nginx-common and a small subset of libnginx-*
> packages
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>
> I ask that people comment here on the listserv, and ultimately we can
> conclude that discussion in Bugzilla at
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=26672.
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> Cheers!
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> *based on my comment at
> https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=22417#c266
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