[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Fwd: (debian bug #676600) just some thoughts about the package

[Paul van Tilburg]

Hi,

I have made a switch in the packaging this evening.  Now, the source is
installed directly to /usr/share/owncloud, the data dirs "data",
"backup" and "themes" are put in /var/lib/owncloud and symlinked back to
/usr/share/owncloud.  The same holds for the configuration in
/etc/owncloud.  In essence this is the inverse situation of before.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:16:09PM +0200, Paul van Tilburg wrote:
> > I send you this mail beside the official bug stream because of some
> > thoughts about the owncloud package. I wonder why there are these
> > symbolic links pointing to /usr/share/owncloud.
> > 
> > The configuration file has the option
> > 
> > "datadirectory" => '/var/lib/owncloud/data'
> 
> That is due to the fact that we started with ownCloud 3, which didn't have
> this option.  I am been planning to change this but didn't want to
> change much now, as we want to have the stuff in testing before the freeze
> and it's working right now.  Or at least, it seemed to be working. :)

I have decided to still go with the symlink, although ownCloud will generate
configuration setting that data directory path which is fine.

> > So theoratically it should work to put the whole php stuff to
> > /usr/share/owncloud and put the data/ dir to /var/lib/owncloud without
> > any symbolic links there and set the "datadirectory" directive as it is
> > anyways. Then the web server should bind the link
> > http://myserver/owncloud to /usr/share/owncloud. I will try this out in
> > the next days with the upstream package and the debian package because I
> > think that this would help to fix the problem from bug #676600.
> 
> Ok, yes, it would be great if you could test this.
> It's a pity we can't do the same with the configuration directory.
> But I guess we can symlink /usr/share/owncloud/config to /etc/owncloud
> directly.

So, as written above I've modified the packaging.   There are test
packages available using the following apt repository:

  deb http://pkg-owncloud.alioth.debian.org/packages ./

Could you try this out and see if it resolves your problems?

Cheers,
Paul

-- 
Using the Power of Debian GNU/Linux  | E-mail: paulvt at debian.org
Jabber/GTalk: paul at luon.net          | GnuPG key ID: 0x50064181