freepbx packages - soon

[Diego Iastrubni]

Hi,


I am going to upload (well... Tzafrir is...) packages for freepbx 2.0.1 
(or whatever the version is by the time I get there). The problem is 
that those packages are very complicated (both from the maintainer side 
and the user/administrator side).


One of the ugliest things is that the package will modify the user 
www-data and add it to the group "asterisk". This is the only way for 
users to be able to modify asterisk files from the web. Way ugly, but 
must be done. This also implies a restart to the httpd server.


Now, I know for sure that the package can run with apache, apache2 and 
mathopd (the version on Debian has an unusable configuration out of the 
box, but the version I packages for Rapid is usable out of the box).


You can use php4-cgi, or libapache-mod-php (probably also fastcgi as 
well, did not test yet).


You can use a local mysql server, connect to an external server or use 
sqlite (very unsupported, some things will not work).


This means that the control contains a lot of "|"  and you can very 
easily get into a situation that the correct mix of packages. For 
example apache2+libapache-mod-php4 (which will bing also apache1!). The 
post install script may fall because of wrong sql libraries (you want to 
use sqlite bu the libraries for mysql have been installed).


For this reason I have created a few virtual packages, here are examples 
of how to use them:


    apt-get install freepbx-apache-mysql freepbx-module-core

    apt-get install freepbx-apache2-mysql freepbx-module-core

    apt-get install freepbx-mathopd-sqlite freepbx-module-core


if you just:

    apt-get install freepbx-module-core


you will get  a running mysql server, apache1, apache-mod-php4.


I have some other questions to ask regarding the usability of those 
packages (from the packager point of view), but lets start with this.


Comments...? How can I improve the first install?