Buildix 2.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Interpid Ibex)

On Ubuntu 8.10 Buildix 2.1 install fails with

subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 10

But it can be hacked to work. The following steps need to be made:

- Add buildix to you app sources just like its shown here
- Run apt-get install buildix and wait for install to fail
- Open /var/lib/dpkg/info/buildix.postinst in our favorite editor and comment out there lines

# Get the port that Mingle is using
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
db_get mingle/port
MINGLE_PORT=${RET}
db_stop

ed -s /etc/apache2/sites-available/buildix << END
,s/localhost\:\(.*\)\/mingle/localhost\:${MINGLE_PORT}\/mingle/g
,s/}:[0-9]\+/}:${MINGLE_PORT}/g
w
END

- Change a2enmod mod_python to a2enmod python
- Download trac extract archive then copy folder contrib to /usr/share/doc/trac/ and folder cgi-bin to /usr/share/trac/
in /usr/share/doc/trac/contrib run gzip trac-pre-commit-hook
- Run aptitude install buildix again this time it should finish properly.
- Navigate your browser to http://localhost/
- Login with username:buildix password:buildix, open config
- Uncheck enabled checkbox under Mingle options, click save.

Buildix 2.1 doesn't play well with Track 0.11 so you need to modify /usr/share/buildix/lib/buildix/modules/trac.py Find line

_execCmd("trac-admin " + trac + " initenv " + name + " sqlite:db/trac.db svn " + repo + " /usr/share/trac/templates",
"Error creating Trac Project: ")

and change it to

_execCmd("trac-admin " + trac + " initenv " + name + " sqlite:db/trac.db svn " + repo,
"Error creating Trac Project: ")

and comment out this line

_execCmd("trac-admin " + trac + " permission add anonymous CRUISECONTROL_VIEW", "Error enabling Trac-CC")

restart apache

/etc/init.d/apache2 restart

Buildix should work properly. Have fun :)