Setup on Arch Linux: ==================== 1) Install Apache, MySQL, PHP, and git # pacman -Sy apache mysql php git 2) Set a local 'hostname' of 'aur' - Edit /etc/hosts and append 'aur' to loopback address 127.0.0.1 localhost aur 3) Configure Apache - Edit /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and enable PHP support by adding the following lines. LoadModule php5_module modules/libphp5.so Include conf/extra/php5_module.conf - Also append the following snippet to enable the aur Virtual Host (Replace MYUSER with your username). Servername aur DocumentRoot /home/MYUSER/aur/web/html ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/aur-error.log CustomLog /var/log/httpd/aur-access.log combined Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all 4) Clone the AUR project (using the MYUSER from above) $ cd $ git clone git://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git 5) Configure PHP Make sure you have mysql and json enabled in PHP. - Edit php.ini and uncomment/add these lines: extension=mysql.so extension=json.so If those php extensions are separate packages on your system, install them. AUR requires PEAR and the Archive_Tar module. Installing PEAR will vary depending on the system and may already be included with PHP. You can also find it in the PHP source distribution. PHP sources: http://www.php.net/downloads.php Archive_Tar PEAR module: http://pear.php.net/package/Archive_Tar - Install the Archive_Tar PEAR package: # pear install Archive_Tar - Put PEAR in your php include_path in php.ini: include_path = ".:/usr/share/pear" PEAR's path may vary depending on your set up. - AUR does not work properly with PHP's short open tag enabled. Be sure you have this in php.ini: short_open_tag = Off 6) Configure MySQL - Start the MySQL service. Example: # /etc/rc.d/mysqld start - Connect to the mysql client # mysql -uroot - Issue the following commands to the mysql client mysql> CREATE DATABASE AUR; mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON AUR.* to aur@localhost > identified by 'aur'; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; mysql> quit - Load the schema file # mysql -uaur -p AUR < ~/aur/support/schema/aur-schema.sql (give password 'aur' at the prompt) - Optionally load some test data for development purposes. # pacman -S words mysql-python # cd ~/aur/support/schema/ # python gendummydata.py dummy-data.sql # bzip2 dummy-data.sql # bzcat dummy-data.sql.bz2 | mysql -uaur -p AUR (give password 'aur' at the prompt) If your test data consists of real people and real email addresses consider inserting bogus addressess to avoid sending unwanted spam from testing. You can insert garbage addresses with: mysql> UPDATE Users SET Email = RAND() * RAND(); 7) Copy the config.inc.proto file to config.inc. Modify as needed. # cd ~/aur/web/lib/ # cp config.inc.proto config.inc 8) Point your browser to http://aur Web Interface: ============== Directory Layout: ----------------- ./html - DocumentRoot for AUR, where the PHP scripts live. ./html/css - CSS stylesheets ./html/images - Any AUR images live here. ./lib - Supporting PHP include files. Access denied to Apache. ./template - Where most of the html markup resides and minimal amount of PHP scripting. There is also a template to model the site's top pages in template.phps Scripts: -------- - lib/aur.inc This is where we can stick functions that can be shared between the various scripts. Also a good place to put the MySQL authentication variables since it should live outside the DocumentRoot. - html/login.php (probably index.php) PHP script to handle logging users into the AUR web site. It authenticates using the email address and a password against the Users table. Once authenticated, a session id is generated and stored in the Sessions table and sent as a cookie to the user's browser. - html/logout.php PHP script to logout. It clears the session id from the Sessions table and unsets the cookie. - html/account.php PHP script to handle registering for a new account. It prompts the visitor for account information: Email, password, real name, irc nick. The info is recorded in the Users table. Perhaps later, we can add a preferences field that allows the user to request to be notified when new packages are submitted so that they can cast votes for them? If a TU is logged into the system, they can edit accounts and set the account type (regular user or TU). If a Dev is logged in, they can also set the account type to Dev. TUs and Devs are able to delete accounts. If an account is deleted, all "Unsupported" packages are orphaned (the MaintainerUID field in the Packages table is set to NULL). - html/packages.php PHP script to search the package database. It should support searching by name, category, maintainer, popularity, etc. It should resemble the packages.php script on archlinux.org. A checkbox should be included next to each package to allow users to flag a package out of date, adopt it, and vote for it (and reverse operations). - html/pkgsubmit.php This is the PHP script that allows users to upload a new package. The package format will be a tgz containing the PKGBUILD, scriptlets, and patches necessary to build the package from source. Initially, the user submitting the package can select its category (network, devel, etc) but that can be modified later by the adopting TU. The script makes appropriate entries into the database (and perhaps notifies interested users of the new package). Terms and Definitions: ====================== AUR - Arch Linux User-Community Repository Includes: - the AUR web site, - the [unsupported] 'repository' - the [community] repository managed by the TUs TU - Trusted User A user that can add binary packages to the [community] repository and administer AUR. [unsupported] The collection of package build files hosted via the AUR web site.