I understand but how will an installer handle the use case which is
"install nutch with multiple configurations for numerous crawls?" basically, for me anyway, that means multiple installations of nutch via ant/ant job I'm kludging a kind of apache solr multicore for nutch (not very welll I suspect) On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]>wrote: > A bash script would be a great start! Though systems that depend on nutch > would want to handle it via a standard package manager, so that's the end > goal. > > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:43 AM, Nicholas Roberts < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > wouldn't a bash script cover mac and linux? > > > > also, nutch doesn't do multi-core like solr so how do you install many > > variations? > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > It seems that from the core Nutch team the time and desire is not there > > > right now to push forward with your proposals. > > > This DOES NOT mean that the proposals will be ignored. > > > I would FULLY back convenient packaging for Nutch artifacts... it would > > be > > > a really great community contributions and we would be one of the few > > > Apache projects that actually could claim to have such facets to the > > > community. > > > Please, feel free to press on with this if you have the time... right > > now I > > > certainly do not. > > > Thanks > > > Lewis > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Andrew Pennebaker < > > [email protected] > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > I've built a .deb for Digital Paintball a few years ago ( > > > > > http://downloads.yellosoft.us/apps/digitalpaintball-debian-src.tar.gz, > > > > http://downloads.yellosoft.us/apps/digitalpaintball_2.0-19_all.deb). > > > > There's a tutorial for doing this: > > > > > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/IntroDebianPackaging > > > > > > > > However, I'm using nutch for work, and may have an awkward time > > charging > > > > hours for contributing to nutch. If we could work together to get a > > .deb, > > > > maybe even a PPA repo for Debian/Ubuntu, a Homebrew formula for Mac, > > and > > > a > > > > Chocolatey package for Windows, that would make my life, and probably > > > > thousands of others' lives, a whole lot easier. I'll see what I can > get > > > > done during downtime, probably prioritizing Homebrew first. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > > Have you written and maintained Debian packages before? > > > > > I opened a Jira issue for this a whiel back and as far as I know it > > is > > > a > > > > > far from trivial process but I would be very very interested to > get a > > > > > Debiran package for Nutch and look at a mac package if so required. > > > > > There is an issue of who is going to maintain these packages? > > > > > Thanks > > > > > lewis > > > > > > > > > > On Friday, August 16, 2013, Andrew Pennebaker < > [email protected] > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > I think it would make nutch installation easier if we released > > > > > standardized > > > > > > packages. > > > > > > > > > > > > For example, the Nutch tutorial calls for manually downloading a > > ZIP, > > > > > > extracting the contents, installing ant, compiling nutch with > ant, > > > and > > > > > > adjusting PATH. > > > > > > > > > > > > What if instead, Ubuntu users could simply "apt-get install > nutch", > > > the > > > > > > same way you can install wget with "apt-get install wget"? > > > > > > > > > > > > Similarly, we could help out Mac developers by submitting a > > > > > > Homebrew<http://brew.sh/> formula > > > > > > for nutch, and Windows developers would enjoy a > > > > > > Chocolatey<http://chocolatey.org/> package. > > > > > > The easier the installation process, the more people want to use > > > nutch! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > *Lewis* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > *Lewis* > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > -- > > Nicholas Roberts > > US 510-684-8264 > > http://Permaculture.TV <http://permaculture.tv/> > > > -- -- Nicholas Roberts US 510-684-8264 http://Permaculture.TV <http://permaculture.tv/>
