Tag: Solaris

OpenSolaris is Dead

Looks like concerns about Oracle’s Sun acquisition are being fulfilled.  After suing Google using a loophole in the Java license and losing James Gosling Oracle has now cut back significantly on the openness of Solaris development.  Whether or not this was a good business decision this is surely damaging to Oracle’s reputation amongst supporters of FOSS, and great news for Microsoft.  Like MySQL and MariaDB there is already now a community effort sponsored by Nexenta to fork OpenSolaris outside Oracle.

Trac on Solaris

Trac is a web-based software project management and bug/issue tracking system. Example publicly accessible sites that use Trac include

Getting Trac installed on Solaris 10 is easy, see http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracOnSolaris Question is, what next?

Blastwave packages are installed below /opt/csw (csw = Community SoftWare). /opt/csw/share/doc/trac/INSTALL provides the next steps. I used:

PATH=/opt/csw/bin:$PATH
MANPATH=/opt/csw/share/man:$MANPATH
tracenv=/var/opt/csw/trac
trac-admin $tracenv initenv
tracd --port 8000 $tracenv & # no authentication
firefox http://localhost:8000/trac

For a small number of users the tracd standalone server is good enough. Authentication can be managed with htdigest on Solaris 10 thusly:

/usr/apache2/bin/htdigest -c $tracenv/conf/users.htdigest
mydomain.com fred

Tracd can then be started like this:

PATH=/opt/csw/bin:$PATH
tracenv=/var/opt/csw/trac
nohup tracd --port 8000 --auth *,$tracenv/conf/users.htdigest,mydomain.com $tracenv &

To change the logo upload the new logo to /opt/csw/share/trac/htdocs and modify trac.ini

[header_logo]
…
link = https://trac.mydomain.com/
src = common/mylogo.png
…
[project]
descr = My Trac
footer = Visit the Trac open source project at 
http://trac.edgewall.org/
icon = common/trac.ico
name = My Project
url = https://myproject.mydomain.com/

Trac is much easier to administer with the WebAdmin plugin, which for Trac 0.10.4 requires downloading and installing from source:

easy_install http://svn.edgewall.com/repos/trac/sandbox/webadmin/

To get started a Trac administrator has to be empowered:

trac-admin /var/opt/csw/trac permission add fred TRAC_ADMIN

To simplify account administration we’ll also try an account manger plugin

/opt/csw/bin/easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/accountmanagerplugin/0.10

…and change /var/opt/csw/trac/conf/trac.ini

[components]
webadmin.* = enabled
trac.web.auth.LoginModule = disabled
acct_mgr.api = enabled
acct_mgr.htfile.HtDigestStore = enabled
acct_mgr.web_ui.AccountModule = enabled
acct_mgr.web_ui.LoginModule = enabled
acct_mgr.web_ui.RegistrationModule = disabled
acct_mgr.admin.AccountManagerAdminPage = enabled
[account-manager]
password_format = htdigest
password_store = HtDigestStore
password_file = /var/opt/csw/trac/conf/users.htdigest
htdigest_realm = mydomain.com

Tracd can then be started like this:

PATH=/opt/csw/bin:$PATH
tracenv=/var/opt/csw/trac
nohup tracd --port 8000 $tracenv &

To manage custom fields we’ll add another plugin

easy_install http://trac-hacks.org/svn/customfieldadminplugin/0.10

…and change /var/opt/csw/trac/conf/trac.ini

[components]
customfieldadmin.* = enabled
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