[Gnumed-devel] wiki update

[David Grant]

I made the decision, mostly on my own tonight, to reinstall twiki fresh 
using the tarball at twiki.org. The comment about a rootkit which was in 
the twiki installation worried me. Also, some aspects of the "Gnumed" 
wiki didn't work, for instance, the left-hand tool bar, and the 
TWikiRegistration page as well. This will be replaced with 
TWikiRegistrationPub which allows a user to choose a password.

It may also be possible for me to restore all the old usernames, even 
passwords (they are encrypted currently, just like standard apache 
passwords. We'll probably ask everyone to change them once the wiki 
comes up).

Once the basic necessities are up and running then it can go live.

Technical details follow:

Carlos and others with admin access, the old twiki is still there under 
twiki-old and the new is twiki-new.

Carlos, I've also unemerged the gentoo twiki ebuild as I'm not confident 
that it is useful at all. I'm scarred that if a twiki update comes out, 
and someone does emerge -uv world, all the important files in 
/var/www/twiki/data/Main like TWikiPreferences and TWikiUsers will get 
clobbered. I don't trust the twiki ebuild at all. It doesn't even set 
all the permissions correctly AFAIK, and it leaves a few things out in 
the 97_twiki.conf file in /etc/apache2/conf as well AFAIK... twiki is 
essentially a non-static-data distribution, and shouldn't be installed 
automatically by a packaging system. The problem is with the upstream 
developers. The "Main" wiki should be created during post-install from a 
template. The ebuild should just install the template. The 
gallery.sf.net project has it figured out....they have these 
html.wrapper files....html.wrapper.default comes with the package. The 
user can create html.wrapper which gets used by gallery. Upgrades 
clobber html.wrapper.default, but not html.wrapper.

Time for bed now!

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David J. Grant
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