[ckan-dev] Default CKAN distribution

Wed May 18 15:22:42 UTC 2011

Hi Will,

We have a "ckan" debian package we can use for this. As a bit of 
background I've just refactored the packaging a bit so that there is a 
new ckan-common package which contains a single file which it installs 
to /usr/lib/ckan/common.sh which contains helper functions that other 
CKAN related packages can call. As an example the ckan-dgu package has a 
postinst script which makes use of a lot of them.

https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckan-debs-public

Going forward I'd like to see the ckan package in the repo above install 
a typical CKAN installation so we can re-work its postinst to the same 
form as the new ckan-dgu package but to use the dependencies below 
rather than the ones ckan-dgu uses.

At that point a typical ckan installation is as easy as apt-get install 
so there would be little benefit in a canned image, although we could 
easily do that too. I'm happy to take on the creation of the ckan 
package myself when I'm back if it can wait until then? CKAN 1.4 will 
also be out by then so it makes sense to make a formal packaged release 
anyway.

Cheers,

James

On 18/05/11 15:34, William Waites wrote:
> a canned AWS image and/or VMware image would go very far for
> evaluation purposes.
>
> Cheers,
> -w
>
> * [2011-05-18 15:31:53 +0100] Seb Bacon<seb.bacon at gmail.com>  écrit:
>
> ] Hi,
> ]
> ] It strikes me that there are now a number of extensions that are
> ] pretty indispensable for a useful site.  For example, the admin
> ] extension, the stats extension, the google analytics extension.
> ]
> ] To make it attractive to people who are evaluating it, we could think
> ] about how to assemble a "distribution" nicely.
> ]
> ] Thoughts?
> ]
> ] Seb
> ]
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