diaspora/pkg/ubuntu

Package-oriented install for ubuntu.

NOTE: This does not work ATM, see discussions on Gemfile.lock in attached to a commit 12/10 (yea, I know, you calll it 10/12, but you are wrong ;)

Here are somediaspora-installdiaspora-install scripts to install diaspora on Ubuntu. They are designed to work as a first step towards packaging, but should be usable as is.

Synopsis

Bootstrap the distribution from git: sudo apt-get install git-core git clone git://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git cd diaspora/pkg/ubuntu

Install the dependencies (a good time for a coffe break) sudo ./diaspora-install-deps

Create and install the diaspora bundle and application: ./make-dist.sh bundle sudo ./diaspora-bundle-install dist/diaspora-bundle-*.tar.gz

./make-dist.sh source
sudo ./diaspora-install dist/diaspora-0.0*.tar.gz

Initiate and start the server; sudo ./diaspora-setup sudo su - diaspora cd /usr/share/diaspora/master ./script/server

Upgrading

The normal procedure to update is to just $ sudo su - diaspora $ cd /usr/share/diaspora/master/pkg/ubuntu $ ./make-dist.sh bundle $ ./make-dist.sh source

And then use diaspore-install and diaspora-install-bundle as above.

It's necessary to always have the correct bundle. The easy way is to just $ ./make-dist.sh bundle

Repo:       http://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git
Bundle:     dist/diaspora-bundle-0.0-1010111342_afad554.tar.gz

The command will return the last built bundle (which is cached) if it's OK to use. If it's not, it will build a new.

Notes

The application lives in /usr/share/diaspora/master. All writable areas (log, uploads, tmp) are links to /var/lib/diaspora. The config file lives in /etc/diaspora. All files in /usr/share are read-only, owned by root.

The bundle lives in /usr/lib/diaspora-bundle, readonly, owned by root. Application finds it through the patched .bundle/config in root dir.

Once diaspora ins installed ,makedist.sh et. al. are available in /usr/share/diaspora/master/pkg/ubuntu, so there's no need to checkout the stuff using git in this case.

The user diaspora is added during install.

Tools used for building package are installed globally. All of diasporas dependencies lives in the nothing is insalled by user or on system level.

make-dist.sh accepts arguments to get a specified commit and/or use another repo.

This has been tested on a Ubuntu 32-bit 10.10 , clean server and on 10.04 Lucid desktop, also clean installation.

mongodb is having problems occasionally. Sometimes the dependencies are not installed, and mongod refuses to start. invoke /usr/bin/mongod -f /etc/mongodb.conf fo test. The lockfile /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.conf is also a potential problem. Remove to make it start again.

The diaspora-wsd is just placeholder FTM, it does not work.

Please, report any problems!