[jira] Updated: (DIRSERVER-749) fix issues with apacheds RPM to get it working out of the box

["Alex Karasulu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-749?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Alex Karasulu updated DIRSERVER-749:
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    Affects Version/s:     (was: 1.5.0)
                       1.0
        Fix Version/s:     (was: 1.0.2)
                       1.0.3

I'm going to postpone this yet again because it's not absolutely critical and the RPM does work on standard RH boxes with the SUN JDK.  A lot of work will be needed to get the RPM in order and some things are now being worked on by Chris and Ole but this will take some time.

> fix issues with apacheds RPM to get it working out of the box
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>
>                 Key: DIRSERVER-749
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSERVER-749
>             Project: Directory ApacheDS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: installer-plugin
>    Affects Versions: 1.0.1, 1.0
>         Environment: linux
>            Reporter: Bastiaan Bakker
>         Assigned To: Alex Karasulu
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.5.1, 1.0.3
>
>         Attachments: apacheds-branch-1.0-server-installers-rpmfix.patch, apacheds-daemon-trunk-rpmfix.patch
>
>
> The apacheds RPM has several issues that prevent it from running out of the box:
> * the init script fails to run because APACHEDS_USER is set to $USER, which is not defined at boot time
> * the init script fails to run bevause JAVA_HOME is not defined
> * the init script it is not registered to the init subsystem with chkconfig or similar
> * the config files are not marked as such, causing them to be silently overwritten when one upgrades the RPM
> * the RPM filename is not conform conventions: ${name}-${version}-${release}.${arch}.rpm
> * the location of the files (/usr/local/apacheds-1.0_RC4) is version dependent, making upgrades cumbsome. The admin has to relocate the partitions and config files on every updgrade.
> * the sources and docs are included in the rpm, even though they are not necessary for operation.
> The RPM build mechanism for apacheds also has some issues:
> * runs rpmbuild as root, which is frowned upon by RPM gurus for security and safety reasons.
> * the generated src.rpm is not self contained, ie. one cannot do a 'rpmbuild --rebuild' with it. 
> * the sudo mechanism is totally unnecessary
>  

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