[Owncloud] Packaging issues

[Robin]

On Friday, June 25, 2010 06:12:06 Ryan Rix wrote:
> Hey one and all,
> 
> Congrats on the 1.0 release, I like what I see :) As a user..
> 
> A lot of you probably know me around KDE, and my involvement upstream as a
> packager in Fedora's KDE SIG, so, yeah, hi :) I've been hacking on RPM
> packages for ownCloud since about rc1, and I have a few issues that,
> afaict, are blocking inclusion in Fedora's main repositories. At some
> point in the future, I would *love* to see ownCloud deployed for Fedora
> users or contributors when it is more mature; it's something I've had in
> mind since I first attended Frank's keynote at Camp in january. But that
> requires RPM packages.
Packages for ownCloud would be great to have
> 
> But enough aimless ramblings :)
> 
> A few things I would hope to see fixed in 1.1, or sooner even, so that we
> could have an easy to deploy Fedora packages:
> 
> Right now, the current setup for most Fedora web applications is to have
> them installed into /usr/share, simply because it's impossible to predict
> where the httpd is looking for web applications; it could be
> /var/www/html/, or it could be some user specified location, or many
> locations (on a multi-user system). After it is installed, it's implied
> that users will softlink it to their webroot.
> 
> Of course, this setup doesn't really work out of the box, as the data/
> directory wouldn't be writable by the apache user, nor should user data be
> in the /usr/share tree. As a result, I've had the idea to set
> /var/lib/owncloud/data as the datadir. I'm curious to know ownCloud's
> multiuser plans, and how that would work with such a distropackage set up.
As it is now, each user has a subdir in the data folder, which it creates if 
it doesn't exist yet on runtime
> 
> Secondly, the method fedora users use, to symlink to the webroot directory,
> simply doesn't work with how ownCloud calculates $WEBROOT in
> inc/lib_base.php starting on line 35. The combination of __FILE__ (which
> points to /usr/share) and $_SERVER["DOCUMENTROOT"] (/var/www/html) doesn't
> play well together at all. That's pretty much a blocker that I would need
> to fix to make this package work in Fedora... Of course, I don't know PHP
> well enough to make something work. ;(
We got a new webroot detection yesterday which should work with symlinks and 
aliases.

 - Robin Appelman