On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:15 PM, Jared K. Smith <jsmith@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Shawn Iwinski <shawn.iwinski@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have started packaging the development version of Drupal 8.  There is
> still plenty of work to do (please help!) and I would also like to get the
> maintainers of drupal6 and drupal7 packages involved.

I'm willing to help out a bit, as I maintain a half-dozen or so
drupal7 packages in Fedora.

Awesome!
 

> Besides "simply" packaging Drupal itself, I am trying to implement some
> additional features:
> * provide RPM macros -- this will help simplify spec files
> * virtual packages (i.e. "drupal8(<drupal_machine_name>)") -- this will
> especially help with the requiring of sub-modules
> * virtual package auto-provides (parsed from *.info filenames) -- this
> allows a package to provide the main module itself as well as any
> sub-module(s) that are included
> * virtual package auto-requires (parsed from *.info files' "dependencies[]"
> entries) -- this will help simplify spec files
> * formalized packaging guidelines

I was thinking about this just yesterday, as it was taking me a while
to track down a bunch of sub-modules and which packages were providing
them.  I think virtual provides for sub-modules is something we could
really use -- and the rest would be fantastic, if we can make it work
automagically.

Automagically is what I am going for.  For example, here are core's auto-provides: http://pastebin.com/X86AsgVM
 

> Drupal 8 itself is still in major development and this package will not be
> ready for Fedora for a good while.  I am doing all of my work out of GitHub.
> If you would like to help out or review anything, please see the links
> below:
>
> Specs and issues: https://github.com/siwinski/drupal8-rpms
> Dev repos: http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/siwinski/drupal8/
> Draft packaging guidelines:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Siwinski/Draft:Packaging:Drupal8

I added a couple of lines to the packaging guidelines around Drupal
libraries.  We may also want to revisit the latest proposed JavaScript
packaging guidelines and make sure that all the new Drupal 8 packages
follow them.

Thanks!  Libraries were one of those things I knew we needed to look into.

Yes, we definitely need to look into the latest JavaScript packaging guidelines.  Speaking of that, I only see mention of using Apache HTTPD specifically (if I'm looking at the correct draft).  I wonder if there will be a notion of "any" web server for packages and not tied specifically to Apache -- for example, a package like dojo would provide the source itself while sub-packages like dojo-httpd and dojo-nginx would provide specific web server requires and configs.  I know Remi has done this for at least one package [1][2].  I was thinking we may want to do the same type thing for Drupal 8 for httpd and nginx.

[1] http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/packaging/2013-January/008863.html
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895592


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Jared Smith