[dev] Debian packages for a few modules

[Alex de Landgraaf]

Hey everyone,

Currently i am working on packaging a few horde modules for debian, the current
versions are on http://am.xs4all.nl/horde for review. 

Currently i have packages for chora, mnemo, nag and snok all working
'reasonably' well, but there are a few differences between the way horde2 is
packaged in debian currently (not by me btw) and the normal horde2 installation
that i would like to have resolved (and maybe get debian/ in the CVS, what would
simplify packaging the latest-and-greatest versions!)

The largest difference is in the way horde handles the installation of new
modules in /etc/horde2/registery.php. Adding to and changing this file leads to
quite some difficulties in automatic handling of modules, this hack by
Rennebarth (nils@debian.org) solves the problem nicely:

--- registery.php
if ($d = @opendir('/etc/horde2/registry.d')) {
    while ($f = readdir($d)) {
        if (ereg(".php$", $f)) {
            include_once '/etc/horde2/registry.d/' . $f;
        }
    }
    closedir($d);
}
---

As you can see, this includes all .php files in the registery.d directory,
making our lives a lot easier =)

Now about the packages i'm working on (only trying the ones with tarballs for
now, sorry =):

horde2-chora is nearly ready, only has a nasty bug not letting a signed-in user
view the CVS (guestmode does work). Gives registery-errors, still trying to work
this one out, anyone got a clue about this?

horde2-mnemo and horde2-nag work afaik with mysql, but only after editing
conf.php, just like kronolith and turba now in sid. Working on a secure way to
fix this.

snok works, but is now seperated (different deb's for passwd, account, forwards
and vacation), going to put them all in one horde2-snok package.

Why am i bothering you all with this? because i hope we can get a few nice
packages in sid for the masses, but first i need to iron out a few
inconsistancies between us =)

Keep up the good work!

Alex de Landgraaf 

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