[Pkg-owncloud-maintainers] Bug#789726: owncloud: add support for multiple instances

[Thiago Ribeiro]

Thank you!

I'll be in debconf!

I will work on a patch for 8.1

Greetings!

2015-07-06 17:13 GMT-03:00 David Prévot <taffit at debian.org>:

> Hi,
>
> We already had a few words on IRC with Thiago, but let me write some
> ideas down before I forget.
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 06:38:05PM -0300, Thiago Ribeiro wrote:
> > Package: owncloud
> > Version: 7.0.6+dfsg-1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: patch
>
> > owncloud […] does
> > not support multiple instances without duplicating the owncloud source
> tree.
> >
> > The upstream community is still discussing that possibility:
> > https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/16424
> >
> > I've made a patch based on the changes in that pull request, which makes
> it
> > possible to have separate instances of owncloud, with separate
> > database and data folders.
>
> That is very welcome, thank you for working on that!
>
> > Please consider applying it to the Debian package.
>
> Sure, but IMHO, adding this feature to the version 7 is not worth it: we
> intend to maintain (and especially backport security fixes on)
> owncloud 7 because that is the version shipped in Jessie, but the
> packaging for owncloud 8.1 is ready for quite some time already (not
> pushed yet to experimental since some dependencies are being processed
> in NEW).
>
> > If you are OK with carrying this patch while the upstream community
> > discusses it,
>
> Yes, I do hope this feature will make it upstream, but would be happy to
> consider it for Stretch no matter what. If you can rebase your patch on
> the current stable8 branch of our repository, that would be nice.
>
> > I can also update the documentation with a simple tutorial on how to do
> > this.
>
> Thank you for your proposal. Hopefully, a short (entry in the current)
> README will be enough (i.e., there won’t be too much work for
> administrators to set up multiple instances).
>
> > with this patch, I managed three instances of owncloud, also I wrote a
> > cookbook that makes instalation and configurations that are required.
>
> That looks nice, I hope I’ll be able to follow you up on that (maybe
> during a face to face if you’ll be in DebCamp or DebConf).
>
> Regards
>
> David
>
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