[Server-devel] Server-devel Digest, Vol 75, Issue 25

[Jerry Vonau]

On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 08:23 +0200, Tony Anderson wrote:
> On 08/06/2013 05:40 AM, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> > I'd be interested in the contents of the xs-moodle files or is that an
> > example? Sounds like 20-xc-generic looks for xc-* directories and files
> > in those directories to execute, need to see the code to be sure on what
> > you require.
> The install file for Moodle is
> 
>   cd "$UM_MOUNTPOINT"/XC
> if [ -f xc-moodle/xc-moodle-install ]; then
>          log notice "Installing moodle"
>          cd xc-moodle
>          if bash xc-moodle-install; then
>              log notice "moodle installed successfully"
>          else
>              log notice "moodle install failed with code $?"
>              error_beep
>          fi
> else
>          log notice 'moodle not found'
>          error_beep
> 
> fi
> 
> The xc-moodle-install file is:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> #take backup from existing moodle
> #su - postgres
> #pg_dump moodle-xs > moodle-xs.sql
> 
> #stop httpd
> /etc/init.d/httpd stop
> 
> #copy the moodle folder to /library
> rm -rf /library/moodle
> cp -r moodle /library/moodle
> chown -R apache:apache /library/moodle
> 
> #restore the moodle-xs.sql backup of the database
> psql -d moodle-xs -f moodle-xs.sql
> #replace config.php file in /var/www/moodle/web and update 
> /etc/httpd/conf.d/moodle.conf (if necessary)
> cp config.php /var/www/moodle/web
> cp moodle.conf /etc/httpd/conf.d
> 
> #start httpd
> /etc/init.d/httpd start
> 
> Naturally, Moodle itself is installed as part of XS-0.7. This installs a 
> PostgreSQL backup of Moodle content (courses). It also moved the Moodle 
> data to /library.
> This was a mistake in the XS implementation. Data directories which can 
> grow
> with use should be in /library not in the root partition. This is the 
> change in
> config.php.
> 

yup, good catch. Got a copy of that also?

> The essence of this technique is that 20-xc-generic needs to be 
> installed by xo-custom, xs-setup, or in the build. Once that is 
> installed, a deployment can
> perform any additional installations of content or packages via xc-install.
> 
> It would probably be useful to have a library of these optional 
> installations.
> 

Yes it would then I could stop asking for source code for an open source
project.

> Currently, I am using this technique to install the courseware for the 
> Learn
> activity, Django, the library, wiki4schools, mediawiki, wiktionary, the 
> beginnings of a learning management system, and the beginnings of an 
> itembank of questions. I hope to have an install script for IIAB 
> (probably one for the front end and one or more for the content).
> 

XSCE is working towards the same goals.

> Tony
> 
> 

Jerry