Package: twiki Version: 1:4.1.2-5 Severity: wishlist I tried to install http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Plugins/ActionTrackerPlugin, but so far have been unable to get it to work. This report details the steps I took and then offers some comments and requests.
I downloaded the file and unpacked it in /var/lib/twiki. I ran ./ActionTrackerPlugin_installer. This told me ************************************************************ Could not load installer script from tools/extender.pl. If this is a TWiki release prior to 4.2, please download the latest version of the script from: http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/ExtenderScript and place it in the 'tools' directory below your installation root (create the directory if necessary). If this is TWiki 4.2 or later, the script is missing from your installation, or may be broken. ************************************************************ The URL was invalid, but I found http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Codev/WebHome?topic=ExtenderScript and installed that. I ran the install. I think the plugin did not appear in twiki's configuration page. The plugin files all had user and group root and permissions that did not give access to others. I reset ownership on some files to www-data. I also tried using the install script to remove the plugin (as root) and then install it as www-data. The latter failed because it couldn't write to some directories, and so I reinstalled as root and changed some ownership. I enabled the plugin on the twiki configuration page. Now I get errors in the apache log like [Sat Nov 22 19:52:17 2008] [error] [client 198.144.201.14] Subroutine TWiki::Configure::Checker::tmpnam redefined at (eval 108) line 2, referer: http://betterworld.us/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiPlugins [Sat Nov 22 19:52:17 2008] [error] [client 198.144.201.14] Subroutine TWiki::Configure::Checker::tmpfile redefined at (eval 108) line 2, referer: http://betterworld.us/twiki/bin/view/TWiki/TWikiPlugins [Sat Nov 22 19:54:39 2008] [error] [client 198.144.201.14] Subroutine TWiki::Configure::Checker::tmpnam redefined at (eval 108) line 2 [Sat Nov 22 19:54:39 2008] [error] [client 198.144.201.14] Subroutine TWiki::Configure::Checker::tmpfile redefined at (eval 108) line 2 [Sat Nov 22 19:56:16 2008] [error] [client 198.144.201.14] Can't locate TWiki/Plugins/AccessStatsPlugin.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/twiki /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.0 /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.10 /usr/share/perl/5.10 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at (eval 53) line 1., referer: http://betterworld.us/twiki/bin/configure [Sat Nov 22 19:56:16 2008] [error] [client 198.144.201.14] BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 53) line 1., referer: http://betterworld.us/twiki/bin/configure [and many more modules unlocatable] COMMENTS 1. I am new to twiki, and so may be doing something wrong. 2. The failure of the install script on TWiki 4.1 is as expected from the plugin documentation. The dead reference to the ExtenderScript is the fault either of the plugin or the website, or both. 3. Although providing 4.2, as requested in bug #462560, would presumably fix the problem, I actually want to use 4.1 since the production site, which I do not control and is probably not on Debian, uses it. 4. Adding the extender.pl script to the package would be helpful. 5. Unpacking the tar file in /var/lib/twiki may have been a mistake, though the plugin installation instructions seem to say to do that: "2. Unpack the archive in the root directory of your TWiki installation. " At first I tried just untarring and running. This didn't work, and is also inconsistent with the installation instructions. 6. Most of the stuff in the Debian package seems to be root:root but world readable/executable. In contrast, the installation script seems to install with modes that give no world access, and therefore assumes that the apache daemon is in the installation group (I think this is www-data on Debian). If the plugins approach is conventional, it might be good to change the ownership of the files in the package. 7. Some hints in README.Debian might be a solution to this problem. 8. The plugin may just be broken under 4.1. 9. Bug #292474 requests a separate spot under /usr/local for locally installed plugins. I don't think that would directly solve the problems above, but it would certainly make things cleaner. 10. The Perl @INC path does not include the twiki directories. I'm not sure if that's a problem. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages twiki depends on: ii apache2-mpm-worker [apache 2.2.9-10 Apache HTTP Server - high speed th ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libalgorithm-diff-perl 1.19.02-1 a perl library for finding Longest ii libcgi-session-perl 4.35-1 Persistent session data in CGI app ii libdigest-sha1-perl 2.11-2+b1 NIST SHA-1 message digest algorith ii liberror-perl 0.17-1 Perl module for error/exception ha ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.56-1+b1 A collection of modules that parse ii liblocale-maketext-lexicon 0.66-1 Lexicon-handling backends for "Loc ii libtext-diff-perl 0.35-3 Perform diffs on files and record ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii perl [libmime-base64-perl] 5.10.0-17 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-modules [libnet-perl] 5.10.0-17 Core Perl modules ii rcs 5.7-23 The GNU Revision Control System twiki recommends no packages. Versions of packages twiki suggests: ii libunicode-maputf8-perl 1.11-2 Perl module for conversing between -- debconf information: * twiki/samplefiles: true * twiki/wikiwebmaster: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * twiki/defaultUrlHost: http://localhost/ * twiki/apacheUserCreationNote: * twiki/adminuser: admin twiki/password_mismatch: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
