[tor-bugs] #21325 [Internal Services/Service - lists]: Installing Schleuder

[Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki]

#21325: Installing Schleuder
---------------------------------------------------+-----------------
     Reporter:  hiro                               |      Owner:  qbi
         Type:  defect                             |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium                             |  Milestone:
    Component:  Internal Services/Service - lists  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal                             |   Keywords:
Actual Points:                                     |  Parent ID:
       Points:                                     |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:                                     |
---------------------------------------------------+-----------------
 I have been looking for a solution to have a working test of Schleuder
 working on our mail server.
 As per now there are two possible approaches. None of them is ideal for
 different reasons.

 Approach 1:
 Schleuder is a Ruby application. More precisely it is installed as a ruby
 gem as it is written in Thor (a small framework to write command line
 interfaces as a gem)

 As other gems, Schleuder has a number of dependencies that it needs to
 run. Namely other gems. Some of these gems are just downloaded, some need
 to be compiled with native extensions.

 These gems are basically written in C and need ruby-dev to be compiled for
 your system. Pulling ruby-dev pulls a lot of packages. Some of these we
 wouldn't like to keep on the mail server (e.g. having a compiler).

 Note that these gems do not need to be compiled system wide. It would be
 possible to use either rvm or rbenv to manage ruby versions and bundler to
 manage gem dependencies. These can all run as user. Still we will need the
 possibility to compile software on the machine (at least during the
 deployment phase).

 Approach 2:
 This involve compiling gems on a different machine and creating deb
 packages that will install the required dependencies for the Schleuder
 user.
 I have left the required packages on:

   /srv/schleuder.torproject.org/home/pkg/

 This way you can inspect them and see if you are happy with how and what
 is going to be installed.
 Note that I have compiled this on a test VM that I use locally. There
 might be arch mismatch with our mail server that I will need to address
 (this is just a test now).


 As I said at the beginning there are various pros and cons for each
 approach, so before continuing I think it would be beneficial to discuss
 this here and agree on a possible solution. Maybe there is also a 3rd
 approach that I haven't fully considered, in this case feel free to
 propose something and I will investigate it.

--
Ticket URL: <https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/21325>
Tor Bug Tracker & Wiki <https://trac.torproject.org/>
The Tor Project: anonymity online