Tim Starling wrote:
Does anyone see a problem with that approach?
The web installer should not be a part of installation from a package at all. We should just get the wiki name from debconf, use the system locale as the language, and install it with defaults otherwise. Then the user will have a working wiki after install.
-- Tim Starling
I disagree. Existing packages do try to install it in /mediawiki or so, leaving it half-configured for the user to finish by running the web installer but that's not smart. IMHO installing the mediawiki package should provide you with a command like install-mediawiki which would request the location and setup all the server alias needed.
On 06/08/10 09:10, Platonides wrote:
My idea for a FHS-friendlier setup was based in storing the LocalSettings for all installed wikis inside /etc/mediawiki.d, all of them pulling from a CommonSettings.php where default overrides and extensions affecting all installs would be stored.
That's basically what it does already, but it does it by patching the setup code. I'd rather see a distributed LocalSettings.php file which pulls in the necessary sub-config files. That can be done without any changes to our source.
Oh, you mean distributed as in the package? That's another option.Other than the different instructions needed, debian_specific_config.patch could be done by playing with ENV vars.