From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30442 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Jul 2003 16:27:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 31223 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2003 16:27:29 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:27:23 -0700 From: Max Kalika To: Alvaro Figueroa Cabezas , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <92180000.1058977643@valkyrie.lsit.ucsb.edu> In-Reply-To: <20030723041029.GI19204@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr> References: <200307231512.51710.stuart@gentoo.org> <259972390.1058945342@[192.168.23.5]> <200307231542.48550.stuart@gentoo.org> <261493890.1058946863@[192.168.23.5]> <20030723041029.GI19204@fuerzag.ulatina.ac.cr> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Poll: Where should web applications be installed? X-Archives-Salt: 863e8b6c-530b-47b6-b3e6-99b98821b377 X-Archives-Hash: 0cf0b5fdcf2a5d5048842f261799e953 Quoting Alvaro Figueroa Cabezas : > On Jul 23 07:54, Max Kalika wrote: > >> Not all applications. The ones I've been dealing with work perfectly >> well having all the files owned by root. > > But the configuration files must be changed so that the aplication knows > to what DB pluggin to use, and where are its DB's and stuff. Acording to > the FHS, things that go under /usr are bound to be read only[1] Right, so my eclass puts all config files in /etc/webapps, along with an apache configuration block that gets activated when the user wants. Like I said, I've been using it with the Horde suite for a month now (upgrading cvs snapshot builds). Horde is very db-heavy and it has been an absolute breeze to upgrade, and then run dispatch-conf to update the conf files since they're all protected. ---max kalika --max@lsit.ucsb.edu -lsit systems administrator -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list