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

I've been interested in putting together an RPM for SuSE 9.0 and 9.1 for a while.

-- 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