ejabberd XS package questions

[Martin Langhoff]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:56 PM, Guillaume Desmottes
<guillaume.desmottes at collabora.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm working on the ejabberd package for the XS. We'd like to provide an
> updated package based on ejabberd 2.0.1 which "just work" once is
> installed. The goal is of course to simplify as much as possible the
> deployment of ejabberd servers for schools and community users.

Good goals, though there's a tricky aspect in that we don't know the
domain name at install time, and AFAIK ejabberd doesn't like the
domain being changed after the DB has been setup.

Following that, my intention is to automate the setup steps that need
to take place once the fqdn has been set.

> My current package is hosted in this git repo:
> http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/cassidy/ejabberd-rpm;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/XS

Great.

> Here is few points I'd like to discuss:
>
> - Where are hosted XS packages source? I guess my ejabberd package
> should belong here.

xs-dev. Have you got an acct there? If not, send me and Henry Hardy
your public keys and we'll set things up.

> - /etc/ejabberd/ejabberd.pem is not installed by current XS package but
> xs-config provide it. Recently, the Fedora's devel package was updated
> to generate this file at the package installation (#5834). I integrated
> this change in my package so we'll probably have to drop ejabberd.pem
> from xs-config.

Yes. I've seen your .pem generation, and I think it's a good idea. As
soon as we clear your new pkg for installation I'll remove the .pem
file from xs-config.

> - Same question about ejabberd.cfg which is currently overridden by
> xs-config. The XS package should directly provide the right conf file I
> guess.

Your package should provide a default cfg. xs-config will have scripts
that will override it (I'm changing how that works at the moment to
make it saner) with a config file that is specific to the XS.

A couple of questions WRT your package:

 - How is it different from the one in F9? New/added files? Patched files?

 - Can we make it so that it is _only_ additional files? If so, then
we could make it into a package that depends on F9's ejabberd.

cheers,




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