[Bug 181599] Review Request: gallery2: web based photo album software

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Summary: Review Request: gallery2: web based photo album software


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181599





------- Additional Comments From paul at city-fan.org  2006-06-06 05:37 EST -------
(In reply to comment #68)
> The package will work fine with a read-only /usr given that:
> - The admin makes /usr rw to install the package (needed for all packages)
> - The gallery store is outside /usr (e.g. /srv/gallery2)
> 
> Additionally, /usr being ro can't be a blocker because that would conflict with
> the updated packaging guidelines stating web apps must go into /usr/share

The application needs to go in /usr/share; its data doesn't need to. Anything
that's writable is data.

(In reply to comment #69)
> It looks like the only thing that would need to get written in
> /usr/share/gallery2 is the login.txt file that the installer requires you to put
> there to authenticate. Is there any chance you could patch it to look for that
> in /srv/gallery2/ instead? 

It might not even need patching; could the file be replaced by a symlink to
somewhere like /etc/gallery2/login.txt, and install the original file there?




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