[Owncloud] Packaging issues

[Ryan Rix]

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.

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.

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. ;(

Ryan

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