Port Request - Asset Tracker for RT

[Quentin Garnier]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 02:36:40PM -0400, Peter C. Lai wrote:
> This is in response to your port request from Fri Apr 11 13:28:17 UTC 2008:  
> 
> This turning out to be a lot of work (I was trying to port it over to
> pkgsrc actually since I'm not deploying it on FreeBSD atm.
> 
> The main issue is having to rewrite/patch the entire upstream Makefile/
> Makefile.in in order to split up the html into LOCALBASE/share/rt and the 
> appropriate perl into SITE_PERL and the config files into LOCALBASE/etc/rt. 
> 
> Now, In the pkgsrc world, we don't put RT's libs into SITE_PERL, but
> they go in PKGBASE/lib/rt3 and by default we tell RT's configure that
> local RT modifications are in /var/rt3. I've resigned myself thus far to
> having AssetTracker's lib and html live in /var/rt3 and the etc files 
> in PKGBASE/etc... It's another few steps (read: patching of AT's Makefile)
> to better integrate AssetTracker so that its libs and html live in the 
> correct spots in pkgsrc; if I ever get around to that, then perhaps we can 
> throw in the SITE_PERL hack, but my client is itching to get his AssetTracker 
> instance up so I may just settle with what I have...
> 
> Trying to use existing p5-RT* portfiles as templates doesn't map well onto
> AssetTracker, mostly because it makes assumptions that everyone is
> installing their RT into the monolithic /opt/rt3 layout...

I never looked at AssetTracker, but I wonder why it'd be very different
from RTFM, which I did manage to put in pkgsrc.

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube at cubidou.net - cube at NetBSD.org
"See the look on my face from staying too long in one place
[...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling"
KT Tunstall, Saving My Face, Drastic Fantastic, 2007.
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