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Re: [Gnumed-devel] wiki update
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David Grant |
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Re: [Gnumed-devel] wiki update |
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Wed, 12 Jan 2005 01:57:31 -0800 |
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Hmm, I should have gone to bed, but instead I did more work.
Good news is, it's almost ready. I stopped apache for now. It will be up
and ready before the end of this week. I might delay it a bit longer to
make sure everything is working.
David
David Grant wrote:
I made the decision, mostly on my own tonight, to reinstall twiki
fresh using the tarball at twiki.org. The comment about a rootkit
which was in the twiki installation worried me. Also, some aspects of
the "Gnumed" wiki didn't work, for instance, the left-hand tool bar,
and the TWikiRegistration page as well. This will be replaced with
TWikiRegistrationPub which allows a user to choose a password.
It may also be possible for me to restore all the old usernames, even
passwords (they are encrypted currently, just like standard apache
passwords. We'll probably ask everyone to change them once the wiki
comes up).
Once the basic necessities are up and running then it can go live.
Technical details follow:
Carlos and others with admin access, the old twiki is still there
under twiki-old and the new is twiki-new.
Carlos, I've also unemerged the gentoo twiki ebuild as I'm not
confident that it is useful at all. I'm scarred that if a twiki update
comes out, and someone does emerge -uv world, all the important files
in /var/www/twiki/data/Main like TWikiPreferences and TWikiUsers will
get clobbered. I don't trust the twiki ebuild at all. It doesn't even
set all the permissions correctly AFAIK, and it leaves a few things
out in the 97_twiki.conf file in /etc/apache2/conf as well AFAIK...
twiki is essentially a non-static-data distribution, and shouldn't be
installed automatically by a packaging system. The problem is with the
upstream developers. The "Main" wiki should be created during
post-install from a template. The ebuild should just install the
template. The gallery.sf.net project has it figured out....they have
these html.wrapper files....html.wrapper.default comes with the
package. The user can create html.wrapper which gets used by gallery.
Upgrades clobber html.wrapper.default, but not html.wrapper.
Time for bed now!
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