diaspora/pkg/fedora

Diaspora RPM tools

Creates RPM packages from diaspora git repository.

An alternative to the capistrano system, providing classic, binary RPM packages for deployment on Fedora 13.

Synopsis:

Prerequisites: ruby-1.8, rubygem and other packages as described in http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Rpm-installation-on-fedora

Create source tarballs like dist/diaspora-0.0-1010041233_fade4231.tar.gz
and dist/diaspora-bundle-0.0-1010041233_fade4231.tar.gz % ./make_dist.sh source % ./make_dist.sh bundle

Setup links to tarballs from RPM source directory: % ./make_dist.sh links

Build rpms: rpmbuild -ba dist/diaspora.spec rpmbuild -ba dist/diaspora-bundle.spec

Install rpm -U ~/rmpbuild/rpms/i686/diaspora-bundle-0.0-1.1010042345_4343fade43.fc13.i686 rpm -U ~/rmpbuild/rpms/noarch/diaspora-0.0-1.1010042345_4343fade43.fc13.noarch

Initiate (as root). /usr/share/diaspora/diaspora-setup

Start development server: sudo su - diaspora cd master ./script/server

See http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/wiki/Using-apache for
apache/passenger setup. After configuration, start with: /sbin/service diaspora-ws start /sbin/service httpd restart

Notes

Routines uses last available version from master branch at github. The version contains a time stamp and an abbreviated git commit id. If listed in filename order, like ls does, latest version will be the last one.

You need to copy all patches and secondary sources in this dir to the rpm source directory a. k. a. $(rpm --eval %_sourcedir). This includes some hidden .* files.

The spec-files in dist/ are patched by ./make_dist.sh source to reference correct versions of diaspora and diaspora-bundle. The diaspora-bundle is only updated if Gemfile is updated, upgrading diaspora doesn't always require a new diaspora-bundle. Editing spec files should be done in this directory, changes in dist/ are lost when doing ./make_dist source.

rpmlint shows many errors, most of which related to that the server won't start if the .git directories are not included. Needs investigation.

This has been confirmed to start up and provide basic functionality both using the thin webserver and apache passenger.

Implementation

'make_dist.sh source' script checks out latest version of diaspora into the dist/diaspora directory. This content is, after some patches, the diaspora package.

'make-dir.sh bundle' makes a 'bundle install --deployment' in the diaspora dir. The resulting bundle is stored in vendor/bundle. This is, after some more patches, the content of diaspora-bundle.

Here is also support for running the diaspora websocket service as a system service through /sbin/service and some install scripts.

Diaspora files are stored in /usr/share/diaspora, and owned by diaspora. The bundle, containing some C extensions, is architecture-dependent and lives in /usr/lib[64]/diaspora. Log files are in /var/log/diaspora. Symlinks in /usr/share diaspora makes log and bundle available as expected by diaspora app. This is more or less as mandated by LSB and Fedora packaging rules.

find /usr/share/diaspora/ -type l -exec ls -l {} \; | awk '{print $9, $10, $11}'
/usr/share/diaspora/master/public/uploads -> /var/lib/diaspora/uploads
/usr/share/diaspora/master/log -> /var/log/diaspora
/usr/share/diaspora/master/vendor/bundle -> /usr/lib/diaspora-bundle/master/vendor/bundle