Coding Week 4 Meeting-2

In this eighth meeting questions related to post install generation were asked. This was a short meeting.

Week 4 Progress #

Version parsing logic implemented.

• VERSION and COMMIT_HASH added to every executables.
• Installing part is complete except cli.
• Symbolic Links are installing and working fine.
• Version, Symbolic Links, VERSION file generation, version.php generation are now more modular and called via a single function for each agent
• Most dependencies are now moved to single configuration file.
• Vendor directory generation and installing are now working.
• To test the current progress, follow the instructions here

Discussions #

• Why all the symbolic links in cli points to fo_wrapper script?
  • The fo_wrapper script calls the PHP script on the symbolic link that called the fo_wrapper. It also initializes any requirement before calling the scripts.
• How to generate all the other configuration in /usr/local/etc/fossology directory?
  • You can find the input files for all these configurations in the install/defcon directory.
• What are OBSOLETEFILES in www/ui/Makefile ?
  • They are kept for compatibility purposes. Although they have been removed in the current versions of FOSSology, if a user installs a new version on top of an older instance, then we should explicitly remove those files.
• I have created a separate folder for generating vendor directory. Is that okay?
  • Yeah, it should be fine, But it would be better to rename it to something else. Or even better if moved to www itself. Since these files are used by www.

Conclusion and Further Plans #

• Move vendor scripts to www directory.
• Implement installing for FOSSology cli.
• Implement installing configuration scripts.
• Finish installation for testing

Attendees #

• Gaurav Mishra
• Avinal Kumar