Bug 457886

Summary:	RFE: moodle: consider switching to using system Smarty if possible
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Tomas Hoger <thoger>
Component:	moodle	Assignee:	Gwyn Ciesla <gwync>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Tomas Hoger 2008-08-05 08:08:20 UTC

Description of problem:
Current moodle packages contain a private copy of Smarty, which is also packaged in Fedora as php-Smarty.  Any bug (or security issue) in Smarty now requires update of both php-Smarty and all applications having own copy.

Please investigate if moodle can be used with system Smarty, or depends on some project-specific customizations.

Possible straight forward way to use system smarty is to do something like:
  rm -rf /var/www/moodle/web/lib/smarty
  ln -s /usr/share/php/Smarty/ /var/www/moodle/web/lib/smarty

+ depends on php-Smarty

Ideally, there may be a way to use system smarty without exposing it in the directory served by web server, as was done in php-pear-PhpDocumentor:
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/php-pear-PhpDocumentor/devel/php-pear-PhpDocumentor.spec?r1=1.4&r2=1.5


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
moodle-1.9.1-2.fc10


Additional info:
Other libraries with local copies in lib/ may also have system package counterpart.

Comment 1 Gwyn Ciesla 2008-08-06 16:27:52 UTC

Smarty dep fixed with symlink in rawhide.  Looking into others, please document here if found. . .

Comment 2 Gwyn Ciesla 2008-08-06 17:01:41 UTC

Working on adodb.  Noticed that the symlink approach fails on upgrade, testing a %pre script to remedy this.

Comment 3 Gwyn Ciesla 2008-08-06 19:35:29 UTC

Built in rawhide using system adodb and magpierss.

Comment 4 Gwyn Ciesla 2008-09-09 19:14:30 UTC

Not finding similarly droppable deps.  Fulfilled scope of initial request. Closing.