To construct a Zope skyscraper on Fedora

Nathaniel McCallum nathaniel at natemccallum.com
Fri Jun 18 13:33:33 UTC 2010


On 06/18/2010 09:08 AM, Robin 'cheese' Lee wrote:
> Hello, all!
>
> And the foundations and first floors of this skyscraper is Zope2 and its
> dependencies, which I have built up. The latest version of Zope2 is 2.12.7.
>
> All the spec files are accessible through my git repo:
> http://fedorapeople.org/gitweb?p=cheeselee/public_git/rpm.git;a=tree;h=refs/heads/master;hb=master
>
> And an yum repo (i686 and SRPM) for F-13 is also available:
> http://cheeselee.fedorapeople.org/yum/zope/
>
> Steps to make a trivial test:
> $ wget http://cheeselee.fedorapeople.org/yum/zope-cheese.repo
> $ su -c "cp zope-cheese.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/"
> $ su -c "yum install zope"
> $ su -c "service zope start"
> $ xdg-open http://localhost:8080/
>
> The 'zope' package itself is most kept under the same conventions of the
> legacy 2.10.x 'zope' package.
>
> So, you can see, there are about 70 source packages to be review.
>
> And I hope for the co-maintainership of following packages, which are
> required by Zope2:
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/python-mechanize
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/python-transaction
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/python-zope-interface
>
> Other Zope2 applications including Plone and other related frameworks
> like Grok and Zope3(BlueBream) are not yet touched. But I should have
> the ambition to get them to Fedora, and even more importantly, to (ep)el6.
>
> And after all, any help or instruction is really wanted.

This is awesome!  I've already started packaging Zenoss's bundled deps. 
  Zope 2.12 was close to next on my list.  I'm sure we can work together 
as soon as Ian Weller approves my sponsorship. :) *nudge*

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603518
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603521

Nathaniel



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