diaspora/pkg/fedora

Diaspora RPM tools

Create RPM packages

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

Synopsis

Prerequisites:

• ruby-1.8, rubygem, git and rake as described in RPM installation Fedora or Installing-on-CentOS-Fedora

• A personal environment to build RPM:s, also described in RPM installation Fedora

Install g++ and gcc: % yum install gcc-c++

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

Create and install the diaspora bundle and application in diaspora/pkg/source according to source README

Setup links from tarballs to RPM source directory and create spec files: % ./prepare-rpm.sh

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

Install (as root): 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 /usr/share/diaspora/master ./script/server

See Using Apache for apache/passenger setup. After configuration, start with: /sbin/service diaspora-wsd start /sbin/service httpd restart

prepare-rpm.sh prepare creates links also for all files listed in SOURCES. Typically, this is secondary sources. make-dist.sh source

Notes

prepare-rpm.sh prepare creates links also for all files listed in SOURCES. Typically, this is secondary sources.

The spec-files in dist/ are patched by *./prepare-rpm.sh to reference correct versions of diaspora and diaspora-bundle. Editing spec files should be done in this directory, changes in dist/ are lost when doing *./prepare-rpm.sh *.

The topmost comment's version is patched to reflect the complete version of current specfile . Write the comment in this directory, copy-paste previous version nr. It will be updated.

This has been confirmed to start up and provide basic functionality both using the thin webserver and apache passenger, on 32/64 bit systems and in the mock build environment. Irregular nightly builds are available form time to time at ftp://mumin.dnsalias.net/pub/leamas/diaspora/builds

Implementation

Diaspora files are stored in /usr/share/diaspora, and owned by root. 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, bundle and tmp dir available as expected by diaspora app. This is more or less as mandated by LSB and Fedora packaging rules.

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

Discussion

The 1.8.7 rebuild is a pain. However, in Fedora 14 1.8.7 is the default ruby version.

For better or worse, this installation differs from the procedure outlined in the original README.md:

• All configuration is done in /usr/share/diaspore. No global or user installed bundles are involved. Easier to maintain, but a mess if there should be parallel installations.

• Service is run under it's own uid, not root or an ordinary user account.

• Using the pre-packaged mongod server means that the DB has reasonable permissions, not 777.

• Splitting in two packages makes sense IMHO. The bundle is not changed that often, but is quite big: ~35M without test packages (the default) or ~55M with test packages. The application is just ~3M, and is fast to deploy even with these tools (yes, I know, capistrano is much faster...)

• Many, roughly 50% of the packages in the bundle are already packaged for Fedora i. e., they could be removed from the bundle and added as dependencies instead. This is likely to make things more stable in the long run. diaspora.spec has a list.