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Create RPMs for Nouveau and extend CouchDB RPM to optionally include Nouveau

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
erlang, java
Domain
build-system, databases

Research direction

Start with rpm/SPECS/couchdb.spec.in around lines 99-103 and compare the corresponding Debian packaging under debian. Trace how the RPM can provide a separate Nouveau package and how installation on the same server differs from installation on a separate server. Done means the regular package remains unchanged, couchdb-nouveau installs Nouveau, and local.d configuration and reload behavior occur only when CouchDB is available.

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Description

The next version of CouchDB (3.4.0) will include a new component for full text search called Nouveau. Nouveau is a Java project that integrates with the rest of CouchDB which is written in Erlang.

We’d like the following scenarios to be handled:

  • A user installs the regular Apache-CouchDB-3.4.0.rpm (the real name might be different) via yum install couchdb. They are not interested in Nouveau, so nothing changes for them. However, Nouveau binaries are installed on the system (this is partially already handled: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-pkg/blob/main/rpm/SPECS/couchdb.spec.in#L99-L103)
    • Same as before, but user IS interested in Nouveau, they can run yum install couchdb-nouveau on the same server and get Apache-CouchDB-Nouveau-3.4.0.rpm installed on the same system and now the following happens:
      • the installation of Nouveau creates a new config file in the CouchDB conf.d dir at /opt/couchdb/etc/local.d/nouveau.ini
      • the installation calls the /_node/_local/_config/_reload endpoint to activate the new config file, or prompts to restart CouchDB, or directly restarts CouchDB.
  • A user wants to run Nouveau on a separate server, so the Apache-CouchDB-Nouveau-3.4.0.rpm installation should not try to augment the local.d config dir and reload CouchDB config, as it has no access to it.

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We have this working for the Debian packages, look there for inspiration: https://github.com/apache/couchdb-pkg/tree/main/debian

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