[kforge-user] Plugin Patches and Some Questions

[Eitan Marder-Eppstein]

John and other KForgers,

I finally had some time to sit down and get a fully operational KForge setup
up and running. In the process, there were a few things I ran into that I'd
like to share with the community as well as a couple of questions I'd like
to ask. I think that this type of thing lends itself well to bullets, you'll
find them below:

- In order to get the moin plugin to work out of the box, I had to make a
few modifications which included adding a "version" field to the "moin"
section of the etc/kforge.conf file. There were three issues. First, the
plugin didn't copy the underlay directory for the wiki correctly. Second,
the plugin copies the moin.cgi file, but doesn't update it to point to the
correct location. Third, in order for moin to find its stylesheet correctly,
it was necessary to add an Alias to httpd-autogenerated.conf that depends on
the moin version number, so I also read a "version" field now from
kforge.conf. I've attached a patch to this e-mail with my changes for
review.

- In order to get the git plugin to work, I had to change "cmd = 'cd %s; %s
--bare init; git update-server-info; chmod +x hooks/post-commit' % (path,
gitCmd)” to “cmd = 'cd %s; %s --bare init; git update-server-info' % (path,
gitCmd)" in the git plugin. I'm not sure what is supposed to populate
hooks/post-commit, but I didn't find it. I've attached a patch, this one I'm
less sure about though... its possible that I've broken integration with
Trac or something, so I'm not sure it should be applied.

- I ran into an error with Trac that I think someone trying to install
KForge awhile back also ran into. Basically, things go well creating a trac
service until you try to view the page and are greeted with a mod_python
error that involves the following text: "Can't change extraction path, files
already extracted". It turns out that the problem stemmed from the fact that
psycopg2-2.3.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg is installed zipped and is unzipped
for me to /var/www/.python_eggs when the first query to the database is
made. The trac plugin tries to set the extraction path for eggs to something
other than /var/www/.python_eggs, but setup tools doesn't allow this because
the psycopg2-2.3.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg is already cached in a different
location and the plugins are doing something like sharing a resource
manager. I didn't dig too deeply into why this was the case, I just manually
unzipped the psycopg2-2.3.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg in site-packages so it
wouldn't be cached and that fixed things. Is this something that people have
seen before? I think it would only come up using postgres as a backend with
psycopg2-2.3.2-py2.6-linux-x86_64.egg installed zipped.

- I couldn't use "sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart" for my "reload_apache"
command. Doing this would cause apache to die anytime a new service was
created from the web. Running the command as the www-data user from a
terminal worked just fine, but running it through the KForge python scripts
consistently caused apache to crash. I ended up switching to "sudo
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload" which works fine, but doesn't work for reloading
all plugin configurations. The mercurial plugin, for example, needs apache
to be restarted... a reload won't cut it. So, in addition to reloading, I
have a cron job that executes "sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart" every 5
minutes. This works fine as I don't expect people to be creating new
repositories all the time, but I was curious if anyone else had experienced
this problem or had any insight into what might be going on. The apache logs
don't show much, error.log just shows the server going down and it doesn't
come up again. Actually, there's a more informative message when the reload
command is run. I see the following in the apache logs even though the
command seems to work: "kforge [ERROR] ApacheConfigBuilder: Apache reload
command 'sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload' exited with non-zero status 256: *
Reloading web server config apache2." Any ideas on what might be going on? Are
people using the "restart" command with success?

Other than those issues, getting up and running was pretty painless. I'll
also mention that I did all of this on a Ubuntu Lucid machine and am running
the following plugins with success:

- dav
- git
- mailman
- mercurial
- moin
- svn
- trac
- www

Hope all is well,

Eitan
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