[Freedombox-discuss] Simple way to help out here and now very concretely

Melvin Carvalho melvincarvalho at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 23:41:11 UTC 2011


On 26 July 2011 11:06, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
> On 11-07-25 at 09:01pm, Craig Barnes wrote:
>> On 24 July 2011 23:54, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>
>> > On 11-07-24 at 11:11pm, Craig Barnes wrote:
>> > > Would love to start playing with various packages, but am not sure
>> > > if I am wasting my time without a plug at my disposal.
>> > >
>> > > If someone could point me in the right direction for getting
>> > > started, I'd happily add my learning experience to the wiki to
>> > > give other Freedom-Box contributor newbies a leg up.
>> >
>> > One quite valuable thing you can do is to propose concrete Debian
>> > packages + any needed configfile customizations.  This does not need
>> > a plug device, just any computer running Debian Linux.
>> >
>> > More info here (and other posts in same thread):
>> >
>> >
>> > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2010-October/000164.html
>> >
>> > Thank you Jonas,
>>
>> I have a spare box that I will be using to tinker with.  What kind of
>> config changes should I be looking at, just software operational with
>> sane defaults?
>
> Yes.
>
>
> As an example of Jabber service + web-based Jabber client:
>
> Packages: prosody jwchat apache2-mpm-worker

This is great!

When I installed jwchat I think ejabbered got packaged.

Which is the actual XMPP server prosody or ejabberd?

I'm still playing around with this, but excellent idea!

>
> Configs: (attached)
>
> Commands:
>
> # TODO: put in postinst of new jwchat-enhancing package bosch-support
> a2enmod proxy_http rewrite
>
> # TODO: use debconf preseeding of jwchat (see bug#635281)
> # FIXME: use actual hostname, and update when hostname is updated
> # TODO: add trigger script updating when system hostname changes
> ln -s ../../jwchat/apache2.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/jwchat.conf
> perl -i -pe 's/^(var\s+SITENAME\s+=\s+)"[^"]*"/$1"freedombox.local"/' /etc/jwchat/config.js
>
>
>
> I hope later today to have upgraded [boxer] to actually work, and make
> use of config snippets.
>
>
>  - Jonas
>
> [boxer]: http://git.emdebian.org/?p=upstream/boxer.git;a=blob;f=README
>
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