Non-responsive Maintainer: mediawiki

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Fri Feb 15 22:56:02 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:24:31AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On 15/02/13 05:44 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:

> >You're both kind of right - the README.RPM file that comes in the
> >mediawiki package tells you to run "mw-createinstance <path>" to create
> >an instance and that sets up a document root in the specified path by
> >both copying some files, like LocalSettings.php, and symlinking others
> >to the /usr/share code.
> 
> Huh. That sounds...interesting. I haven't run mediawiki itself, so I
> wasn't aware of that, I was just referring to my general knowledge
> of how webapps are packaged in Fedora (e.g. wordpress, which I do
> run). Thanks.

Trac behaves similarly. There is also some environment setup and
deployment involved that creates/copies files, which are usually not
common to all instances.

Regards
Till


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