On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 01:03:40PM -0400, Damien Katz wrote: >> Body: I realise you're not taking pull requests into an unofficial >> mirror but it seemed an effective way to deliver this feedback.
I think this an awkward way to deliver feedback. I have to guess which specific revision of this fork of an unofficial mirrored git repository is the one I am meant to be looking at for consideration, which puts some considerable burden on me. I would prefer that patches against the official repository are sent to the mailing list as attachments, or added to JIRA. >> I've modified the README to reflect my own painful experience of >> installing CouchDB on OS 10.5. That's 3 hours I'm never getting back. Comments on this changeset, as I presume it is what is being referenced: http://github.com/lachlanhardy/couchdb/commit/51fad5e4e1ac8abda040f31c0c253e771a85dc2b - * GNU Autoconf (>=2.59) (http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) + * GNU Autoconf (>=2.60, <2.6.2) (http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) [...] - port install automake autoconf libtool help2man + port install automake libtool help2man + +(but you'll still need to install autoconf from source as the latest version, 2.6.2, fails silently) It seems like the problems you experienced were because of a bug in the MacPorts autoconf package. I appreciate how frustrating this may have been, but CouchDB cannot modify it's README to account for all the ephemeral bugs in external packaging systems. I would suggest reporting it here instead: http://trac.macports.org/ + chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/run/couchdb [...] + chmod -R 0770 /usr/local/var/run/couchdb This directory is created every time you run the daemon, so this is not needed. +or on OSX: + + chown -R couchdb /usr/local/etc/couchdb + chown -R couchdb /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb + chown -R couchdb /usr/local/var/log/couchdb + chown -R couchdb /usr/local/var/run/couchdb Why have you added this section? Does the previous one fail? Thanks, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
