Re: Install of pgadmin4 from package fails ...

On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Devrim Gündüz <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> wrote:

>
> Hi Josh,
>
> Sorry for the late response, I have 10K unread emails as of now:
>
> On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 08:24 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > I know how to fix my personal install (and container image). But I want
> > to fix the RPM package so that it's fixed for most users. Right now,
> > install from RPM is kind of broken.
> >
> > Here's the changes that need to happen on the RPM:
> >
> > 1. Remove the QT dependencies for pgadmin4-v1-web
>
> Why? I thought we need them to run pgadmin4?
>

Only in desktop mode. For web-only use, no Qt should be needed.

>
> > 2. Have the RPM create /usr/share/httpd/.pgadmin, owned by apache user.
> > (is this the best location? If not, what is?)
>
> Good question. I think that location is good.
>
>
> > 3. Fix the systemd unit file so that the pgadmin4 unit is owned by
> apache.
>
> Why? I did not read all the emails in this thread (yet), but all of the
> unit
> files are owned by root, and I see no exception on my system.
>
> > 4. (optional) set up files according to FDL standards, putting configs
> > for pgadmin4 in /etc/pgadmin and the db in /var/run/pgadmin (or similar).
>
> Red Hat does not care about that that much, does it? Especially for /etc
> part.
>

Debian does though. That's been on my TODO list for a while. It's pretty
easy to do though - we can have a config option in config.py to specify the
location of config_local.py, defaulting to the current location. Packagers
could then override that in config_distro.py.

>
> > Devrim, where is the source for this rpm build?
>
> https://yum.postgresql.org/srpms/testing/10/redhat/rhel-
> 7-x86_64/repoview/pgadmin4-v1.html
>
> Regards,
> --
> Devrim Gündüz
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