I couldn't find any RPM packages that would work for my RedHat system (RHEL 3 beta 1) so I wrote my own. If I had known how long it would take to figure out RPM SPEC files and figure out a bug in my rpmbuild installation, I certainly wouldn't have done it. But I couldn't stop once I started.

They should work on any RedHat system that provides Apache 2.0 (httpd >= 2.0). They depend on the availability of /etc/httpd/conf.d.

• twiki-20030201-2.noarch.rpm: Binary arch-independent package

• twiki-20030201-2.src.rpm: Source RPM package

Enjoy.

-- TuradgAleahmad

Thanks for doing this (belatedly) - see also ModPerl, TWikiOnRedHat and ModPerlOnRedHat90.

-- RichardDonkin - 09 Oct 2003

I've just rebuilt these packages for the TWikiRelease01Sep2004. They are attached below..

-- KevinCMiller - 09 Sep 2004

I've also just built them for Fedora Core 2. The primary difference is dropping the perl-CGI dependency, since perl provides that by default.

-- KevinCMiller - 10 Oct 2004

Good work, thanks Kevin,

I'm ignorant of the details of how RPM works, but just to be sure everyone can reproduce these packages, can I just make sure that

1. all files required to build the RPMs are checked in to the SVN repository
2. there are some instructions describing how it is done

-- CrawfordCurrie - 11 Oct 2004

you can recreate the RPM from the SRPM (source RPM), along with Google:rpmbuild (rpmbuild -rebuild twiki-20040901.fc2-2.src.rpm), although it would still be a good idea to get the .spec file checked into CVS/SVN(?) if i make any modifications, i'll check it into TWikiPluginsCVS

-- WillNorris - 21 Oct 2004

I've rebuilt the RPMs with the patch to address SecurityAlertExecuteCommandsWithSearch. They are the -3 RPMs below..

I'm also posting the specfile that I'm using to build the RPMs. It can be adjusted for your system and then use rpmbuild -ba [specfile] to build the actual RPMS.

-- KevinCMiller - 16 Nov 2004

If a single spec file is found in a tarball, you can rebuild the binary RPM directly from the tarball with rpmbuild -ta tarballname.tar.gz.

I've done a lot of RPM packaging and will check out what you've got. My TWiki is deployed on Fedora Core 2, but was manually installed. An RPM would be nicer.

-- KennethPorter - 16 Nov 2004

Issues:

• No build root. That means you can't package as a mortal, and someone who repackages as root risks blowing away their real installation.
• twiki.conf can be another source file.
• Don't mess with the user's config in %post and %postun, unless this is a first-time install and no config file exists yet.
• Content should be in /var/www (or perhaps /srv), not /home.

-- KennethPorter - 17 Nov 2004

> That means you can't package as a mortal
Have you checked http://easysw.com/epm ? As a really nice side effect, it would give you packages for most other Unixes.

-- PeterKlausner - 01 Mar 2005