On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Marcus Moeller mail@marcus-moeller.de wrote:
There are a few challenges in a common infrastructure setup. We make use of components that are not part of the 'official' CentOS repositories atm. Most of them are web applications like Moin, phpBB, Mailmann, etc.
Just as a note: Mailman *is* available in the core repositories. The other two aren't, that is true.
These have to be packed and made available, either in a publicly accessible (preferred) or an internal repo. So maybe CentOS Extras or even Contrib is a good place to hold these new packages.
Yes.
Another advantage is the artwork and style setup. This could either be included directly within the corresponding application packages or packed separately.
Those need to be done as separate packages, so you don't need to update the application when you update styles/artwork and the other way around.
As we are also replacing some configuration files of HTTP (e.g. error messages) we may also have to re-pack this app. Having RPMs that replace other RPMs configurations is not the preferred way, I guess.
The error messages maybe should be played out via puppet. Config itself needs to go into puppet anyway.
Cheers,
Ralph