pgadmin4-rpm.patch - This is the main patch that includes scripts, makefiles and spec to create RPMs for RHEL6/RHEL7/F-22/F-23/F-24.
Can we keep the directory names in lower case?
Sure. Will do that.
It will create two RPMs i.e pgadmin4 and pgadmin4-web. The pgadmin4 tpm depends on web and the web rpm depends on the python packages. I have commented the list of packages which are not available on some systems so that Devrim can build them.
The installation path for pgadmin4 is "/usr/pgadmin4-<major>.<minor>" and pgadmin4-web is the site-packages/pgadmin4-web
Shouldn't the -web package also have the major.minor version number in the path, to allow side-by-side installation?
Right. Now that we don't have major/minor, so, will it be /usr/pgadmin4-v1 and pgadmin4-web-v1 ? Or?
pgadmin4-server-ini.patch - This is the patch for runtime/Server.cpp. As said pgadmin4-web and runtime installation directories are different and that means web does not exists in parallel to runtime like in sources.
I observed that the location of application settings was not defined in Server.cpp. As per QSettings doc, the default location on Unix is the $HOME/.config/<companyname>/<appname>.conf. Here, $HOME depends on the user that runs the application. So, I thought why not to define the application settings in application directory itself. RPM then knows where to define the ApplicationPath. I tested it and it worked fine with me. I haven't done this change for platform dependent.
Doesn't that prevent non-root users from changing the settings? Or (if you widen the permissions on the ini file), allow one user to mis-configure the app for others? I think what is needed here is a search path change, much like you added for the Mac app bundle.
Right. Will use python command to find the site-packages path and then concatenate pgadmin4-web directory name.
Other thoughts:
- Please rename the README to README.txt
- The code to build the RPMs should be entirely confined to pkg/rpm. A Makefile target should be added to /Makefile to build/clean the targets (this mistake was made with the Mac package too, but was one of the original requirements).
Please resolve these issues and I'll take another look.
