Fossology installation script

Simple script to install Fossology 3.9.0 from sources in Debian 9 (Stretch) or 10 (Buster), and adjust server settings according to Fossology's official documentation.

Settings are tweaked and some dependency code is patched in order to enable Fossology to import huge spdx report files.

After installation, you can access Fossology at https://{fossology_server_address}/repo.

Default user/password both for Fossology and for the Postgres DB are fossy/fossy.

You may want to change default password both in Fossology and in Postgres DB. In case you change postgres DB password, you have to put the new DB password in /usr/local/etc/fossology/Db.conf, otherwise Fossology will not work.

The included Dockerfile and docker-entrypoint.sh files can be used to create a Fossology 3.9.0 docker image that has the same tweaks and patches that are provided by the installation script.

docker build -t fossology_optimized .

Then the docker container can be created and launched with:

docker run -d \
  --name myfossy \
  -p 127.0.0.1:80:80 \
  -p 443:443 \
  fossology_optimized

If you need data persistency, you should create a volume for /var (mainly for the database) and a volume for /srv (for files stored by Fossology):

docker volume create fossy-var
docker volume create fossy-srv
docker run -d \
  --name myfossy \
  --mount source=fossy-var,target=/var \
  --mount source=fossy-srv,target=/srv \
  -p 127.0.0.1:80:80 \
  -p 443:443 \
  fossology_optimized

In a previous version of the installation script, also phppgadmin was installed, in order to allow easier inspection of Fossology's database.

However, phpggadmin currently suffers of security issues, so the related part was commented out in the installation script. If you decide to install it anyway, because you are able to add a security layer to protect it, feel free uncomment that part.