[Bug 465159] New: Review Request: tcexam - A Web-based Computer-Based Assessment (CBA) software

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Summary: Review Request: tcexam - A Web-based Computer-Based Assessment (CBA) software

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=465159

           Summary: Review Request: tcexam - A Web-based Computer-Based
                    Assessment (CBA) software
           Product: Fedora
           Version: rawhide
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: medium
          Priority: medium
         Component: Package Review
        AssignedTo: nobody at fedoraproject.org
        ReportedBy: oron at actcom.co.il
         QAContact: extras-qa at fedoraproject.org
                CC: notting at redhat.com, fedora-package-review at redhat.com
   Estimated Hours: 0.0
    Classification: Fedora


Spec URL: http://oron.fedorapeople.org/tcexam/tcexam.spec
SRPM URL: http://oron.fedorapeople.org/tcexam/tcexam-5.4.006-1.fc8.src.rpm
Description:
  TCExam is a free Web-based and Open-Source Computer-Based Assessment
  (CBA) software application hosted on the SourceForge.net repository.
  TCExam is divided in two main sections: Public and Administration.

Since the only packaging policy for web-applications refer to their
location (/usr/share/app-name and not /var/www/app-name), I had to
make several decisions -- So the current package is used by me to
validate/correct these assumptions as well.

Packaging overview:
 1. Created selinux sub-package.
 2. The application needs an instantiated database (either MySQL or
Postgresql):
    a. Each database type is a sub-package, containing the init data.
    b. Since RPM installs are not interactive, I added a script that can
       create/init/drop the database (currently only MySQL implemented fully).
    c. This script is installed in sbindir (better suggestion?)
    d. The init data is in /usr/share/tcexam/setup (didn't have better place).
 3. The php application have some scripts that embed configuration variables:
    a. For now, they are located as upstream put them (not in /etc).
    b. They are mod 0440 because some of them contain sensitive info
       (e.g: the database password).
    c. Therefore, they are owned by apache (so the web-app can access them)
       The apache user is created by httpd which is one of the depndencies
       of our package anyway.
 4. The upstream package host its logs under the application directory:
    a. I fixed them to /var/log/tcexam/tce.log
    b. Added a logrotate config.
 5. Likewise, I moved cached files to /var/cache/tcexam.
 6. There wasn't any suitable Group. I used Applications/Web (shouldn't we
    have a group for these apps?)
 7. The application is bundled with tcpdf.org which is itself a FOSS project
    (by the same upstream author). This should probably be refactored as
    a separate package (later).
 8. For tcpdf, there are some bundled fonts (dejavu and freefont). While they
    look free. I'll have to check with upstream how can we use existing
    system fonts (maybe by linking).

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