Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 4:33:24 -0700 From: Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> To: <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: joomla ports - installation- multiple virtual hosts Message-ID: <20070330113325.DDHO12099.dukecmmtao03.coxmail.com@dukecmmtao03>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wesley Shields
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 12:03 PM
> To: ports@freebsd.org
> Cc: Vizion
> Subject: Re: joomla ports - installation- multiple virtual hosts
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 02:36:53PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> writes:
> > >>>> -----Original Message-----
> > >>>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Vizion
> > >>>> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 8:57 AM
> > >>>> To: ports@freebsd.org
> > >>>> Cc: freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org
> > >>>> Subject: Re: joomla ports - installation- multiple
> virtual hosts
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Vizion <vizion@vizion.occoxmail.com> writes:
> > >>>> Just wonder if anyone is able to suggest a way of
> modify the Makefile
> > >>> so as ro be able to install joomla,from
> /ports/www/joomla/, into a
> > >>> chosen directory for a number of virtual hosts.
> > >
> > >>> Maybe I'm confused (I did bang my head yesterday), but
> isn't that
> > >>> exactly what ports(7) defines PREFIX for? I.e., you
> should be able
> > >>> to set it in the environment without changing the Makefile.
> > >>>
> > >> I believe you - but I know nothing about it. Does that mean
> > >> using Prefix I can tell the port to install multiple
> > >> instances of joomla each one going into a different path -
> > >> one under each virtual host root?
> >
> > Yes, I think that's exactly what it means.
> >
> > >> Maybe I am missing something too- unfortunately my head
> > >> doesn't need banging for that to happen.<chuckles> If so
> > >> could you give me an example of the command?
> >
> > The idea was just to set the PREFIX variable in your shell
> environment
> > before installing to the jail. The precise syntax depends on your
> > shell, but it's just like setting any other variable.
> >
> > > One further thought.. how would the installation of
> multiple instances affect the pkgdb?
> >
> > Oh, right. That would be a problem. My suggestion doesn't
> handle it
> > at a high enough level. It looks like ports support DESTDIR, just
> > like the world-building did when you installed the base system into
> > the jails. The comment from the relevant port makefile is:
>
> Unless I'm missing something he's talking about installing
> into virtual
> hosts as defined by his web server, not into jails.
>
> > # DESTDIR - The path to the environment we are
> installing to. Define
> > # this if you want to install
> packages into a jail
> > # or into an another FreeBSD
> environment mounted
> > # elsewhere than /. ${PREFIX}
> is relative to
> > # ${DESTDIR}. E.g. setting
> DESTDIR=/bla PREFIX=/opt will
> > # result packages installed
> under /bla/opt and registered
> > # under /bla/var/db/pkg.
> > # Default: not set (means /)
> > #
>
> You don't want to use DESTDIR for this either (again, unless
> I'm missing
> something). What you want to do is to do what an earlier
> post suggested
> and re-work the port such that you can install it with a given PREFIX
> and have the pkg be recorded separately for that install. You'll want
> to tweak the pkg-plist and something which gets put into the pkg-name
> (PKGNAMESUFFIX as Scot suggested will work). This way the plist has
> recorded that it installed into your virtual host as opposed to it's
> normal location, and the package will have a different name from other
> joomla installs.
>
> Of course upgrading will be difficult if you go that route.
>
> Honestly, you're better off doing this in a slave port (or multiple
> slave ports if you want).
>
> -- WXS
Thanks very much.
What do you mean by a slave port??
david
BTW I ghave put forward a suggestion which was originally made under the title of this thread. On reflection I changed it to
Subject: Ports - proposal - To handle Multiple instances
in usr ports.
because I felt it better to keep them separate.
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