Packaging Project

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Objectives

  • To increase the distribution of our beloved and most favorite blogging platform
  • To make it easier for people to install Movable Type
  • To make it possible to automate the upgrade of Movable Type

Project Plan

  1. Build a dependency tree
  2. Map each node of the tree to software bundles available in .rpm and .deb formats
  3. Identify any components that MT relies on directly or indirectly that do not yet have a bundle available in .rpm or .deb formats
  4. Determine which dependencies are required and optional
  5. Build packaging specs:
    • Red Hat (.rpm)
    • Debian (.deb)

Dependency Tree

Use the space below to begin recording those modules that Movable Type depends upon. For each of those modules record their dependencies, and so on down the line.

Required Modules that MT does NOT Redistribute

  • DBI

Optional Modules that MT does NOT Redistribute

  • Archive::Tar
  • Archive::Zip
  • Crypt::DSA
  • Digest::SHA1
  • HTML::Entities
  • Image::Magick
  • IO::Compress::Gzip
  • IO::Uncompress:Gunzip
  • List::Util
  • LWP::UserAgent
  • Mail::Sendmail
  • MIME::Base64
  • Storable

Bundled with plugins

  • HTML::Entities (WXR Importer)
  • PHP Markdown (redistributed with permission and in accordance with their license)
  • Markdown with Smartypants (redistributed with permission and in accordance with their license)

Redistributed with Core

Perl modules (all can be found on CPAN with the exception of TheSchwartz).

Module Version Distributed* Explicit requirement in core Debian name Debian unstable version
Archive::Extract 0.08 no n/a n/a
Cache 2.04 no libcache-perl 2.04
CGI 2.80 yes perl-modules 3.15
Class::Accessor 0.22 yes libclass-accessor-perl 0.31
Class::Data::Inheritable 006 no libclass-data-inheritable-perl 0.06
Class::ErrorHandler 0.01 no libclass-errorhandler-perl 0.01
Class::Trigger 0.10_01 no libclass-trigger-perl 0.13
Crypt::DH 0.06 no libcrypt-dh-perl 0.06
Data::ObjectDriver UNKNOWN (based on 0.05) yes libdata-objectdriver-perl 0.05
File::Copy::Recursive 0.23 no libfile-copy-recursive-perl 0.35
File::Temp 0.12 yes libfile-temp-perl, perl-modules 0.18, 0.20
Heap 0.71 no libheap-perl 0.80
HTML::Template 2.8 no libhtml-template-perl 2.9
I18N::LangTags 0.27 yes perl-modules 0.35
Image::Size 2.93 yes libimage-size-perl 3.1
IO-stringy 2.110 no libio-stringy-perl 2.110
IPC::Cmd 0.24 no n/a n/a
JSON 0.99 yes libjson-perl 2.01
Jcode 0.88 yes libjcode-pm-perl 2.06-1
libwww-perl 5.64 yes libwww-perl 5.808
Locale::MakeText 1.03 yes perl-modules 1.09
Math::BigInt 1.63 yes perl-modules 1.77
MIME::Charset 0.044 no libmime-charset-perl 0.044
MIME::EncWords 0.040 yes libmime-encwords-perl 0.040
Module::Load 0.10 no libmodule-load-perl 0.10
Net::OpenID::Consumer 0.12 yes libnet-openid-consumer-perl 0.14
Params::Check 0.24 no libparams-check-perl 0.26
Params::Validate 0.73 no libparams-validate-perl 0.89
SOAP::Lite 0.52 no libsoap-lite-perl 0.69
TheSchwartz 1.06 yes libtheschwartz-perl 1.04
UNIVERSAL::require 0.11 no libuniversal-require-perl 0.10
URI 1.22 yes liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1
URI::Fetch 0.05 no liburi-fetch-perl 0.08
XML::Atom 0.25 yes libxml-atom-perl 0.25
XML::Elemental 2.0 no n/a n/a
XML::NamespaceSupport 1.09 no libxml-namespacesupport-perl 1.09
XML::SAX 0.13 yes libxml-sax-perl 0.16
XML::Simple 2.14 no libxml-simple-perl 2.18
XML::XPath 1.13 yes libxml-xpath-perl 1.13
YAML::Tiny 1.12 yes libyaml-tiny-perl 1.21


PHP Libraries

Module Version Distributed*
Smarty 2.67
ezSQL 1.26


  • Version numbers are drawn from 4.15b4b (update still in progress)

Status of packaging

Debian

Known issues with non-extlib versions of modules

Class::Trigger >= 0.11_02

Error:

Got an error: mutiple trigger registration in one add_trigger() call is deprecated. at /usr/share/perl5/MT/Entry.pm line 243

Fix: http://people.debian.org/~dom/patches/movabletype-opensource/4.1/add_trigger.diff

JSON >= 2

StyleCatcher error:

Can't locate object method "delimiter" via package "JSON" at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/JSON.pm line 136.

Fix: http://people.debian.org/~dom/patches/movabletype-opensource/4.1/json.diff

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