As far as I remember, creating the package isn't that big of a deal, but I've never dealt with trying to get something included in the repositories.
I agree that it would be awesome to be able to just "apt-get install opendbd", though with the current viviotech installer it's pretty straight forward as it is. On Sunday, July 22, 2012 2:13:37 PM UTC-5, Al Holden wrote: > > I think that packaging for the popular *nix flavors (rpm or apt) would > provide a huge boost. > > It would be great to sit down at a Ubuntu server command line, type > "apt-get -install openbd" and be running CFML without the hassles. That > gets you even closer to the prime location: An option in the core > installer's disk image! > > After that, I suppose somebody with enough Perl chops could write a > webmin panel that (did the above and) echoed Matt's administrator. > > (Webmin panels sense if their feature is installed, and offer to run the > package installer if it is not. The SpamAssassin panel is a good example > of this.) > Al > > > On 7/22/2012 11:50 AM, Alan Williamson wrote: > > this is one of those areas we as a community could kick ass with. > > > > Shipping it with OpenBD as a ready-to-run app. > > > > On 22/07/2012 14:46, Alan Holden wrote: > >> I use webmin to administer both my MySQL and PostgreSQL databases (I > >> was using phpPgAdmin) > >> And my email server, and my logs, and my RAID array, CD mounts, > >> Apache, file manip, chron jobs, backups, etc... > > > > -- online documentation: http://openbd.org/manual/ http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
