Migrate e-smith to smeserver

This page is to discuss and track the migration of legacy e-smith- packages etc. to smeserver- packages and the associated changes required.

List of base e-smith packages

Package	Status	Who	Comments
e-smith	draft	TrevorB
e-smith-LPRng
e-smith-apache
e-smith-backup	draft	TrevorB
e-smith-base
e-smith-cvm-unix-local
e-smith-devtools	draft	TrevorB
e-smith-dnscache
e-smith-domains
e-smith-dynamicdns-dyndns
e-smith-dynamicdns-dyndns.org
e-smith-dynamicdns-tzo
e-smith-dynamicdns-yi
e-smith-email	draft	TrevorB
e-smith-flexbackup
e-smith-formmagick
e-smith-grub
e-smith-horde
e-smith-hosts
e-smith-ibays
e-smith-imp
e-smith-ingo
e-smith-ldap
e-smith-lib	draft	TrevorB
e-smith-lib-compspec
e-smith-manager
e-smith-mysql
e-smith-ntp
e-smith-nutUPS
e-smith-oidentd
e-smith-openssh
e-smith-packetfilter
e-smith-php
e-smith-po
e-smith-portforwarding
e-smith-pptpd
e-smith-proftpd
e-smith-proxy
e-smith-qmail
e-smith-qmailanalog
e-smith-quota
e-smith-radiusd
e-smith-runit
e-smith-samba
e-smith-starterwebsite
e-smith-test
e-smith-tinydns
e-smith-turba
e-smith-viewlogfiles

What needs to be done:

All of these changes are being done in the new https://src.koozali.org GITEA instance after the packages have been migrated there.

• Create copy of e-smith-<pkg> as smeserver-<pkg> Fork the smeserver/e-smith-<pkg> into your own user space as <user>/smeserver-<pkg>
• Makefile - change e-smith to smeserver

  NAME := smeserver-<pkg>
  

• smeserver-<pkg>.spec - change e-smith to smeserver and add in Provides of the old e-smith package

  %define name smeserver-<pkg>
  
  Provides: e-smith-<pkg>
  

  If the Source: is not tar.gz change it and delete the archivefilename file

  Source: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
  

• README.md - change name and add link to bugzilla for both new name (keep the old link there)

• Transfer your smeserver-<pkg> over to the smeserver Organisation when you think it's ready for review/testing/etc.

Do we need to change the e-smith directories too?

In the first few packages I 'migrated' I have also change the standard e-smith directories to smeserver and created a symlink of the old e-smith directory to the new smeserver one, to support the old structure.

new smeserver directories

directory	where initialised
/etc/smeserver	smeserver-lib
/home/e-smith
/usr/sbin/smeserver	smeserver-lib
/usr/local/perl5/vendor_perl/esmith	smeserver-devtools

In the packages I have 'migrated' I have also changed the directory structure to fit this new model.

Whilst the changes in the root directory structure are fairly obvious, this also impacts the createlinks file