Fedora Magazine RFR

Dennis Gilmore dennis at ausil.us
Wed Jun 20 18:52:56 UTC 2007


>> > I found egroupware packaged for fedora core 5/6 already. The link was
>> > on the egroupware site.
>> > http://software.opensuse.org/download/server:/eGroupWare/Fedora_Extras_6/noarch/
>> >
>>
>> Ouch. If it's not in our repositories, it isn't properly packaged, or
>> no-one ever took ownership and just dumped that package in.
>>
>> IMHO, that package is just like this one package I have:
>> This-will-burn-your-machine-1.0.1-4.fc7.noarch.rpm
>>
>> Nonetheless, the package can save you a lot of work since you would only
>> need to adjust the spec file and maybe build some patches to match the
>> packaging guidelines and pass review, right?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Jeroen van Meeuwen
>>
> Yeah, it should. Since it is just a PHP Script I wouldn't need to make
> it "compatible" with fedora 7. I don't need to include php right?

you don't include php.  but you need to make sure that files are put in
the correct locations with the correct permissions. you cant just dump it
all in /var/www/html/egroupware or something along those lines

-- 
Dennis Gilmore, RHCE




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