GNUsocial package?

GNUsocial package?

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Shouldn't it be rather easy to package GNUsocial?
https://git.gnu.io/gnu/gnu-social/blob/master/INSTALL

All we might need are some php dependencies, and
the whole thing would be handled by a service anyway
if we assume standard layouts of tables etc.

It looks way easier than Mastodon which requires a container
load of npm packages.

Do we have someone among us who has GNUsocial admin/setup
experience who could make a statement on the installation
process?
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Re: GNUsocial package?

[Arun Isaac]

> Do we have someone among us who has GNUsocial admin/setup
> experience who could make a statement on the installation
> process?

I have been running a GNU Social instance for 1.5 years now. To install,
I just cloned the git repo, and set up nginx with the proper document
root.

However, GNU Social requires some folders (such as file/) to be
writable. It puts uploaded media files, among other things, in those
directories. How would Guix handle this? In Guix, the entire package is
in the store, and the store is read-only.

Re: GNUsocial package?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:

>> Do we have someone among us who has GNUsocial admin/setup
>> experience who could make a statement on the installation
>> process?
>
> I have been running a GNU Social instance for 1.5 years now. To install,
> I just cloned the git repo, and set up nginx with the proper document
> root.
>
> However, GNU Social requires some folders (such as file/) to be
> writable. It puts uploaded media files, among other things, in those
> directories. How would Guix handle this? In Guix, the entire package is
> in the store, and the store is read-only.

That’s not a problem.  Nginx, for example, also needs writable
directories, so we override the location of these directories to /var or
/run.  Something similar could be done with GNU Social.

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Re: GNUsocial package?

[Joshua Branson]

Just out of curiosity, how do you override those directories?  Is it
something you configure at compile time, or some sly links?

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Re: GNUsocial package?

[Arun Isaac]

Joshua Branson writes:

> Just out of curiosity, how do you override those directories?  Is it
> something you configure at compile time, or some sly links?

+1