Ami Ganguli wrote:
> On Thu, 05 July 2001, "Ken Pooley" wrote:
> > I saw slashdot is there.....anything interesting? Get me some pix for the
> > MWS....
Yeah right, rub it in... it is now definate that I will not be able to
make it. Which sucks, but those are the breaks.
> 1. The installation problems with Midgard are worse than I'd thought. I've
> always found it a bit of a pain to install myself, but I muddled through.
> There's a small army of potential users who seem to have tried and failed
> to get anything working. We really need to find a way to simplify things
> and get organized about .rpms and .debs.
If someone can give me a blow-by-blow for .debs... I started a few
times but the procedure for building .debs seems a lot more involved
than building rpms.
> About installation...
>
> One thing I'd like to try is packaging all the dependancies: Apache, Expat,
> MySQL, and PHP along with the Midgard source and an install script that
> puts everything in it's own subdirectory (/usr/local/midgard/apache,
> /usr/local/midgard/mysql, etc.). That way the install script has control
> over all the important packages. It should be possible to create an install
> script this way that really works every single time.
The Gargantuan package... ApacheToolbox does something like this. A
source-based install for a GP would be _way_ more platform-dependant
hassle than I'd want to bother with, and for binary packages we could
just depend on the native packages.
Emile
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