[Pkg-zope-developers] testing zope2.7

[A Mennucc]

hi everybody

I tested zope2.7 2.7.7-4 from experimental today ;
 here are my comments

***) if there is no instance, the sarge version of /etc/init.d/zope2.7 
 suggests to use mkzope2.7instance ; this I added in response to a bug ;
 this is lost in experimental

***) similarly we should check that the exp version do not have other
 regressions wrt bugs 

 I have indeed found that 2.7.7-4 is affected by bug 313644 , indeed :
# ls -l inituser
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 40 2005-09-08 18:09 inituser


 And 2.7.7-4  is affected by bug 313621 indeed 
# umask 027
# /usr/sbin/dzhandle  -z 2.7 make-instance --addon-mode all  /tmp/umasked
.....
# ls -lad /tmp/umasked
drwxr-x---  7 root root 4096 2005-09-08 18:33 umasked/

 I have sent proper 'found' commands to the BTS.

 We should then also check other bugs.

***) there is no README.Debian  in the zope2.7 package.
 This is bad since there are a lot of things that are not so easy to guess.
 We should symlink the README.Debian of zope-common in zope2.7 and 2.8 and 
 zope3

***) this zope does not contain the script  mkzope2.7instance .
 This is bad since this is present in zope2.7 in sarge so 
 people may expect it to be there  . 

 We (=I) should create a placeholder script that calls dzhandle
 (I have some good ideas)

***) dzhandle does not permit the avg user (=not root) to create an instance:

layuser $ /usr/sbin/dzhandle  -z 2.7 make-instance --addon-mode all  /tmp/pippo
........
  File "/usr/lib/python2.3/shutil.py", line 102, in copytree
    os.mkdir(dst)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/etc/zope2.7/pippo'

 (whereas mkzope2.7instance did allow that -- it was nice to test 
 products -- I would just create an instance in /tmp and run it and
 then destroy it).

 This is easily solvable, by not putting /etc/zope2.7/$instance in /etc
 but rather in $instance/etc 
  (that now is a symlink to   /etc/zope2.7/$instance )
 when the user using dzhandle is not root.
 
 Of course, when a avg user creates an instance, all questions regarding
 "restarting mode" are useless and should be avoided; and similarly,
  all products installed after the instance is created will not be
 automatically added, until the user calls 'dzhandle add-product' manually.
 
***) [minor issue] dzhandle has 'options' and 'action options' and
 when I tried to run :

$ /usr/sbin/dzhandle -z 2.7 --addon-mode all make-instance /tmp/pippo
dzhandle: error: no such option: --addon-mode

 I was quite puzzled and I had to reread the man page 3 times to understand.

 (The above is a bit fascist, btw, since the 'action options' do not
  clash with the 'options' ).
 At least, we should add a line to that error,  such as 
 "put action-options after the action name, please"


***) the templates of zope-common contain a lot of questions regarding
 the creation of an instance, that are not used by zope-common.
 What are they for?


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I did not yet test the product management system of dzhandle

a.

-- 
Andrea Mennucc
 "E' un mondo difficile. Che vita intensa!" (Tonino Carotone)
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