[Booki-dev] Problems installing Booki on Fedora 11

[James Simmons]

Douglas,

I made some more progress on setting up OBJAVI2.  Unfortunately, I
keep hitting roadblocks caused by SELinux.   If there is one failing
in Booki and OBJAVI 2 that really stands out it's that SELinux really,
really doesn't like the way your instructions recommend setting them
up.  If I set up the home directory profile so that httpd can access
them then GDM complains, and if I don't they won't run.  SELinux
really, really doesn't want you to run your apps out of home
directories, and I know that my Unix admins at work won't agree to run
it that way in any case.  There needs to be a proper setup.py.

There also needs to be some suggestion of how to get redis running on
boot up.  Redis doesn't even have an install target for its make file.
 It's easy to get past that (copy the four binaries to /usr/local/bin)
but I still need a good way to run the sumbitch on boot up.

You really need to mention SELinux in the install instructions.  You
also need to mention that home directories in Fedora are NOT readable
by other users by default, so you need to change the permissions.
Finally, in one of your Python modules you're doing an "rlimit" and
SELinux doesn't like that.  The dialog that tells me that says SELinux
can be configured to allow that, but the sumbitch won't tell me HOW.

Other problems: OBJAVI 2 only lists free licenses when printing books.
 If I'm going to use it in the office I need it to say "Confidential
and proprietary material copyright (C) 2010 Yoyodyne, Inc." or some
such verbage.

Minor gripe: Booki shows a little picture of the user when you're
logged in, but every user gets the same picture and you can't put in
your own picture.  It would be better to have no picture at all than
that.

I have to say that Booki running by itself and using the shared OBJAVI
works pretty well.  There's no way in hell you could run it in an
office that way, though.

James Simmons


On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 10:09 AM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:
> Douglas,
>
> The http link seems to work OK.  Thanks.
>
> James Simmons
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Douglas Bagnall
> <douglas at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>> hi James,
>>
>> I don't know if it works, but if you click on 'HTTP' link at
>> http://github.com/douglasbagnall/epub it should give you an http clone url.
>>
>> There's also a "download" link which will give you a tarball or zip.
>>
>> Douglas
>>
>> On 23/10/10 09:52, James Simmons wrote:
>>
>>> Douglas,
>>>
>>> Thanks.  Any chance of getting http working for your Git repo?  At
>>> work we have some serious firewalls.  I can do http over a proxy
>>> server, but the ports Git uses are blocked.
>>>
>>> What I've been doing is to do my Gits at home and burn a CD, but I'd
>>> like to avoid that as its slowing my progress.
>>>
>>> James Simmons
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Douglas Bagnall
>>> <douglas at paradise.net.nz>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 23/10/10 05:50, James Simmons wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Douglas,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm having some import problems with objavi.cgi.  When you run it from
>>>>> the command line it has a problem with fm_book.py where it cannot find
>>>>> the iarchive package:
>>>>>
>>>>> from iarchive import epub as ia_epub
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't find this package either.  It seems to be a dependency that
>>>>> you did not mention.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah yes, that is this http://github.com/douglasbagnall/epub
>>>>
>>>> The easiest thing would be to go:
>>>>
>>>> git clone git at github.com:douglasbagnall/epub.git iarchive
>>>>
>>>> in the objavi directory.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for spotting that -- I'll try to remove the dependency as Objavi
>>>> doesn't
>>>> use much of it any more.
>>>>
>>>> Douglas
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>