>>>> > The postrm makes me think that elgg can't do multiple sites on the >>>> > same machine, is that the case? >>>> >>>> This is correct. Is the postrm OK for this situation? >>> >>> Ah, please work with upstream to make it a bit more flexible. >> >> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but this seems to be a matter of having >> additional features in the upstream package instead one of packaging >> it for Debian. Looking at other PHP packages (Moodle, Serendipity, >> Mahara, and Wordpress), it seems standard to allow a single >> installation to serve a single website. Have I misunderstood this >> point? > > Yes, best to add the flexibility upstream. It is standard but inflexible > and indicates that the code, configuration and user data must live on > the same place on the filesystem instead of the code being shared > between multiple sites, which each have different configuration and > data. I got bitten by this with wordpress, which wanted to install > user-uploaded themes to /usr/share/wordpress, which is obviously wrong > since that is where the code belongs and isn't modifiable by users. I > had to hack around this with some crufty symlinks. Like the prepared SQL > statements stuff, it is indicative of code that might not be of the best > quality. Ideally all PHP projects would allow X amount of sites, each > available on a different domain at a different URL, depending on the > webserver configuration.
I have to respectfully disagree that this is a sign of code quality. I can agree that allowing multiple sites is good practice, but it is a feature of the software, not an indication of code quality. Many--if not most--of the PHP applications packaged for Debian are configured this way, and I doubt these packages would be in Debian if their quality were seriously lacking. What is the plan if upstream doesn't see the need to include this feature? Making Debian-only modifications that would allow multiple sites is of course possible, but at that point I'd be introducing features (and possibly bugs) not found upstream. I would, to some degree, be forking upstream... Thoughts? Brett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
