Installing and Running Trac on Gentoo

Trac is included in portage as of 2004/04/29. Installing is as simple as:

  emerge trac

Past that, normal Trac configuration should apply.

Someone's put together a really nice guide to setting up trac on gentoo ​here.

There were a couple of little things that were required to make Trac on Gentoo work.

• Make sure your berkdb and python use flags are set!

• If you have any trouble, go down to the bottom and start emerging components this is how I figured out that the svn bindings for Python weren't building, etc.. Be sure to run the python update script if needed.

• Once built, your alias for /trac will be different from the TracInstall doc. It'll look something like this:

Alias /trac "/var/www/yourdomainhere/htdocs/trac/"

This makes Trac all pretty, like you're used to seeing! Otherwise it's got essentially no layout.

Install Trac from Source

Attached is the ebuild to build trac from it's source:trunk​. To use it save and extract it to your PORTDIR_OVERLAY, normally

/usr/local/portage/www-apps

Of course if you already don't have it there, add to your make.conf:

PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/"

So, from scratch, add the above to your make.conf and:

mkdir /usr/local/portage/
mkdir /usr/local/portage/www-apps
cd /usr/local/portage/www-apps
wget http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/attachment/wiki/TracOnGentoo/trac-svn-1.tar
tar xvf trac-svn-1.tar
rm trac-svn-1.tar
mkdir /usr/local/portage/dev-python
cd /usr/local/portage/dev-python
wget http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/attachment/wiki/TracOnGentoo/pysqlite-1.1.6.tar
tar xvf pysqlite-1.1.6.tar
rm pysqlite-1.1.6.tar

To build from what Gentoo provides, although I havent tested like this, simply do:

emerge trac-svn -va

If you want to be on the edge like me:

echo =www-apps/trac-svn-1-r1 ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo =dev-python/pysqlite-1.1.6 ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo =dev-lang/swig-1.3.24 ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo =dev-lang/swig-1.3.24 >> /etc/portage/package.unmask
echo =dev-util/subversion-1.2.1 ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

And you'll probably will also need to(portage will complain):

echo =net-www/apache-2.0.54-r13 ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo =net-www/gentoo-webroot-default-0.2 ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo =dev-libs/apr-0.9.6-r3 ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo =dev-libs/apr-util-0.9.6-r2 ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

These are the ebuilds I'm using:

dev-lang/python-2.3.5
dev-lang/swig-1.3.24
dev-util/subversion-1.2.1
dev-db/sqlite-3.2.1-r3
dev-python/pysqlite-1.1.6 [cutom ebuild - see attached]
dev-libs/clearsilver-0.9.7
dev-python/docutils-0.3.5
app-text/silvercity-0.9.5-r1