The current configuration for the storage looks like this:

::

    [mediagoblin]
    publicstore_class = StorageBackend
    publicstore_base_dir = %(here)s/user_dev/media/public
    publicstore_base_url = /mgoblin_media/
    publicstore_password = secret

Instead I suggest an alternative configuration scheme:

::

    [storage:publicstore]
    class = StorageBackend
    base_dir = %(here)s/user_dev/media/public
    base_url = /mgoblin_media/
    password = secret

I implemented this on my dev/storage\_config branch.

There is also an other config option with configobj, sub sub
sections:

::

    [storage]
      [ [ publicstore ] ]
      base_dir = %(here)s/user_dev/media/public
      base_url = /mgoblin_media/
    
      [ [ queuestore ] ]
      base_dir = %(here)s/user_dev/media/queue

I don't know, if this one is "better". I would prefer the first
one.

Currently we use .save() to generate the ObjectId, but this is
silly, and actually can cause an error when there already exists
something with the same slug (and our auto-slug-generation tool
might not catch it). We should do ['\_id] = ObjectId() instead to
explicitly create this.

I did "python bootstrap.py && ./bin/buildout" and got this:

...
Getting distribution for 'PasteScript'.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 1, in
File
"build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy\_install.py",
line 1712, in main
File
"build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy\_install.py",
line 1700, in with\_ei\_usage
File
"build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy\_install.py",
line 1716, in
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 152, in setup
dist.run\_commands()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in
run\_commands
self.run\_command(cmd)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in
run\_command
cmd\_obj.run()
File
"build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy\_install.py",
line 211, in run
File
"build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy\_install.py",
line 427, in easy\_install
File
"build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy\_install.py",
line 476, in install\_item
File
"build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy\_install.py",
line 655, in install\_eggs
File
"build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy\_install.py",
line 930, in build\_and\_install
File
"build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/command/easy\_install.py",
line 919, in run\_setup
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 62,
in run\_setup
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 105,
in run
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/setuptools/sandbox.py", line 64,
in
File "setup.py", line 1, in # GNU MediaGoblin -- federated,
autonomous media hosting
ImportError: No module named ez\_setup
An error occurred when trying to install PasteScript 1.7.4. Look
above this message for any errors that were output by
easy\_install.
While:
Installing.
Getting section make\_user\_dev\_dirs.
Initializing section make\_user\_dev\_dirs.
Installing recipe mediagoblin.
Getting distribution for 'PasteScript'.
Error: Couldn't install: PasteScript 1.7.4

Chris said to try bootstrap.py with the --distribute option. That
worked fine.

This bug is for:


1. figuring out what happened
2. fixing the hacking howto so it's clearer about working around
   issues and using --distribute