Well I finally got Trac up and running. Trac itself wasn’t so bad, there were just twenty things I had to set up before I could even get to that point. Once trac-admin stopped crashing things were a piece of cake. I’m following something similar to these instructions for managing multiple projects.
Are wikis the next new big thing after blogs (which are the new big thing after conventional web sites)?
I’m jealous. I’ve had Trac and the other half dozen dependencies sitting on my desktop for about a fortnight. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and say I’ll have them all installed and running before the week is out…
The instructions (correctly) say to use “chown -R apache /var/lib/trac/project1/” for everything. I have found, that once subversion becomes an integral part of your life, having an alias to “sudo -u $HTTP_USER” makes much more sense. Remember to run svnadmin recover as root and then chown things back to $HTTP_USER, though, should the need arise.
There’s one more thing to keep in mind – db transaction logs are important, but can get quite large and messy. svnadmin has a parameter named -list-unused-dblogs which you could xargs to a rm to reclaim space and – sometimes – speed up commits and checkouts.
Be very careful. there’s a bug report at the trac site about it corrupting your SVN repository. I’ve had this 2-3 times already. Fortunately it was recoverable every time so far. But beware. See the following: bug 741 and bug 571
Steven, Weblogs were the next big thing after Wikis. Wikis have been around longer. Trac, btw, is not a Wiki, although is has one as part of the bundle.
just installed Trac on my Windows laptop. I know I know, but it was easy. There are step by step directions in the Trac Wiki on how to do the install. I already had Apache2 setup, just had to setup Python. Say what you want about Windows, but I think my setup went much easier than Matt’s.
Set up on Gentoo linux is as simple as it gets.
emerge -uDav tracYes, very simple…
bash-2.05b# emerge -uDav trac
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies …done!
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Total size of downloads: 60,622 kB
!!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed
!!! on the same system.