[Typo3-debian] Integration of Typo3-Packages into the Debian main archive

[Christian Leutloff]

Hi Michael,

Michael Stucki wrote:
>>-rw-r--r--  1 leutloff users    49798 2004-11-12 18:59
>>typo3_3.7.0-0.2_all.deb
> This seems to be the former typo3-env package. Looks right.

yes.

>>-rw-r--r--  1 leutloff users  1531140 2004-11-12 18:59
>>typo3-frontend-3.7_3.7.0-0.2_all.deb
>>-rw-r--r--  1 leutloff users  9491580 2004-11-12 18:59
>>typo3-backend-3.7_3.7.0-0.2_all.deb
> 
> 
> Houston, problem!
> It makes absolutely no sense to split these packages! Please merge them
> again, even a finished page cannot be run without the backend part
> (typo3/...) of the package.

please see my other mail for the reasoning

>>-rw-r--r--  1 leutloff users   244266 2004-11-12 18:59
>>typo3-db-dummy_3.7.0-1_all.deb

> Well, is this package usable? Shouldn't this be accomplished by the
> site-installer? I though so...

Yes, I've used it to install a plain site using the 1-2-3 installer from TYPO3.

> Most notably it should be possible to co-install a version of each branch
> (typo3_3-6, typo3_3-7, etc.).

The source (frontend and backend) are designed to be installed side by side.

The Database packages will be upgraded and replaced, because the user "copies" the SQL into the given database. Nothing dagerous happen through the upgrade. Using the TYPO3 database analyser (or a similar named tool) it should be possible to upgrade the existing database using the new one.

> One important note: Please start (or try) to consequently write TYPO3 in
> upper-case as we do it everywhere (except in URLs or in the Debian package
> name).

ok. I've started doing so.

>>- package the typo3-site-installer
> 
> As stated, I'd like to see this as a separate project which does not depend
> on Debian, but of course we should provide a package for it!

me, too.

>>- package typo3-db-quickstart and typo3-db-testsite in a similar way I've
>>done for typo3-db-dummy
> 
> I don't think they make sense.

I disagree, please see other mail for the reasoning

Bye

Christian

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