[bt-devel] Module RPM's

[Brook Humphrey]

Fred Saalbach wrote:

> I was looking over the sword site and found that Brook has created RPM's
> of a number of sword modules.  He uses a different file structure than
> the one I am recommending in Bibletime installation guide.  Should I
> change the guide to be consistant so that RPM's and raw modules can be
> installed together?

I will probably redo most of the rpm's soon anyway things have changed 
allot since I made them. There is also allot of stuff going on with the 
modules right now that chris is working on.

> 
> I can not test this as these modules require that sword be installed
> from an RPM (dependancy issues).  I don't want to create myself trouble
> by forcing RPM's just now.
> 
> Fred
> 
> Proposed change below.
> 
> 
> 3.1.2.3. Integrating modules
> 
> Create the directory mods.d inside of your SWORD directory. Please copy
> the file [modulename].conf into the mods.d directory. the .conf file is
> normally inside the unpacked module files. Now move the whole dir
> "modules" which contains your unpacked module data files to the SWORD
> directory. In the example /usr/local/sword is the SWORD directory.
> 
> This structure is the same as is used in the sword module RPM's, so you
> can install both RPM's and raw modules.
> 
>  Directory Structure looks like this:
> 
>  /usr/share/sword/ -|- doc -----|- module documentation
>                     |
>                     |- mods.d/ -|- module_1_name.conf
>                     |           |- module_2_name.conf
>                     |
>                     |- modules -|- lexdict -|- rawld -|- lexicon module
> files
>                                 |
>                                 |- texts ---|- rawtexts -|- bibletext
> modulefiles
>                                 |
>                                 |- comments -|-rawcom -|- commentary
> files
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> A SWORD based app has to know where the modules are located. You need a
> small configuration file in /etc to do this. Create the file
> /etc/sword.conf.The file has to contain only the two following lines:
> 
>  [Install]
>  DataPath=/usr/share/sword
> 
> If you select a location other than /usr/local/sword in the example
> above for your path to the SWORD directory, point the data path to your
> selected Sword directory.
> 
> --
> Best Regards
> Fred Saalbach
> saalbach@sybercom.net