= Installing and Running Trac on Gentoo =

Here is an ebuild that is suitable for installing Trac 0.6.1 on Gentoo Linux.  It should include all dependencies listed in the install guide.  Since I have only tested on x86, it only includes the ~x86 keyword, so you will have to emerge with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 set, or include the following in your /etc/portage/package.keywords:

{{{
  net-www/trac ~x86
}}}

You will probably need to do the same thing for some other packages with ~x86, because at the moment, subversion and clearsilver only have ~x86 ebuilds in the main portage tree.  It does '''not''' include a webserver dependency, as Trac can be installed on any http server that supports CGI, and that installation is not done as part of the ebuild anyway.

Here is the ebuild:

{{{
# Copyright 1999-2004 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

DESCRIPTION="Software project portal with subversion integration, bug tracking, and wiki"
HOMEPAGE="http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/"
SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.edgewall.com/pub/trac/${P}.tar.gz"
LICENSE="GPL"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86"
IUSE=""

DEPEND=">=dev-lang/python-2.1
        >=dev-util/subversion-0.37
        dev-db/sqlite
        >=dev-python/pysqlite-0.4.3
        >=dev-libs/clearsilver-0.9.3"

src_compile() {
        einfo "No compilation required"
}

src_install() {
        python ./setup.py install --prefix=/usr --root ${D} || die
}
}}}

The best place to install it would be in your local portage overlay.  Uncomment PORTDIR_OVERLAY in your make.conf, and save this ebuild as ${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/net-www/trac/trac-0.6.1.ebuild.  Then run '''ebuild ${PORTDIR_OVERLAY}/net-www/trac/trac-0.6.1.ebuild digest''' to create the md5 sum for the source archive.  Then '''emerge trac'''.

The ebuild has not been submitted to the Gentoo maintainers yet, as I want to make sure it works cleanly.  Once I'm sure it works reasonably well, I will submit it so it will be in the main portage tree, and all this extra nonsense won't be necessary.

Enjoy!

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I am emerging trac from portage, it is now included (but masked) in gentoo.