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From: Angelo Compagnucci <angelo.compagnucci@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 12:31:16 +0200
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH v2 2/2] package/python-web2py: new package
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Dear Thomas Petazzoni,

2015-04-14 10:56 GMT+02:00 Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>:
> Dear Angelo Compagnucci,
>
> On Tue, 14 Apr 2015 10:46:21 +0200, Angelo Compagnucci wrote:
>
>> >> I can try! Honestly, I've not explored the option cause web2py is self
>> >> contained and it doesn't require installation. It uses a writable
>> >> directory for served applications, so suing a custom directory un
>> >> /usr/share with writing permission setted to www-data seemed the most
>> >> sensible choice.
>> >
>> > Installing with python-package seems to work, but it does not install
>> > the web2py.py program itself, so it should be done separately.
>>
>> Yes, I tried and it's practically useless.
>
> Well, the setup.py can be fixed to also install web2py.py, or the
> web2py.py can be installed by Buildroot separately, using a post
> install hook.

honestly, i don't think it's really necessary to use python distutils
infrastructure to install web2py, it's not even considered in the
official documentation. Probably because the installation is ususally
don copying web2py in a folder reacheable by apache and configuring it
for use with wsgi, or via the internal webserver.
The official setup-web2py-ubuntu.sh distributed with the application
makes a /home/www-data directory and adds a apache/wsgi virtualhost.

>> Honestly, more or less all the application framework I saw in the past
>> runs in a www-data owned directory, I can think of joomla, redmine an
>> many others I poked with.
>> Probably do you want a more finer grain in the permission table, like
>> giving writable permissions only to the directories that really need
>> it, I can try!
>
> Well, if the Python modules of web2py get installed by the setup.py
> script, they are installed in /usr/lib/python<version>/site-packages/.
> And clearly, we do not want to directory to be owned by www-data.

Yes, true, cause web2py is usually installed as an apache served
application in an apache www-data owned directory.
For the of simplicity, I choose to adopt the same method, but without
using an apache virtualhost way too overkill, but use the internal
webserver.

I'm preparing a new patch in which web2py will be installed in the
more suited /var/www/ directory.

Sincerely, Angelo

>
> Best regards,
>
> Thomas
> --
> Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons
> Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
> http://free-electrons.com



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