Re: Status of 1.4

[Philip Rhoades <..hidden..>]

Roderick,


On 2012-02-18 09:16, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Philip Rhoades wrote:
> </snip>
> > It looks like the choices are: Config::General, Config::Std, and 
> > Config::Tiny, YAML and JSON but why don't you just put the data into a 
> > PG table? - if localhost and port 5432 are not being used, then 
> > presumably the person is competent enough to change the config table 
> > appropriately and if the install was faulty or fails then the 
> > accounting is not going to work anyway so the config info is 
> > irrelevant.
>
> If it isn't localhost and port 5432 then how does LSMB connect to the
> database to know which host and port to use?  :-)


Perhaps I wasn't clear enough - in the great majority of cases, 
localhost and port 5432 will work fine and a "config.sh" or a create 
config table facility in a larger script is all that is needed.  In the 
cases where that won't work, then presumably the person who is managing 
the existing installation will be clued up enough to manually edit the 
"config.sh" script appropriately and change variables to correspond to 
the actual port and server name.


> Config-Std (perl-Config-Std RPM) problems seem to be mostly
> distribution issues -- Redhat based systems.


Yes, the largest US/Australian commercial version of Linux.


> I see two ways around getting the current or best RPMs.  Wse an
> existing repo: Epel, Rpmforge, etc. or create a LSMB repo and put
> problem packages into it.


I think getting rid of problem packages and doing things in a simpler 
or more reliable way is better.


> I believe if Yum is used, instead of downloading the RPMs and
> installing them, the dependencies (or most of them) will be
> automagically resolved.


I use yum and that hasn't helped at all so far . .


> According to the man page on my CentOS 5.7 workstation:
>
>  localinstall
>      Is  used  to  install  a set of local rpm files. If
>      required the enabled repositories will be used to resolve
>      dependencies.  Note that  the  install  command  will do a
>      local install, if given a filename.
>
> I still have to allocate the tuits to try an RPM/YUM install again.
> The last RPM install attempt failed so I've been lurking and 
> following
> the discussions letting ideas rattle around in my head.  Hopefully
> this upcoming week I can give my ideas a chance to prove themselves.


I'm glad that more than I are thinking about the problem!  My ideal 
situation is that on a fresh Fedora/RH/CentOS/etc system (installed from 
a LiveCD system), I can do:

  yum install http://ledgersmb.org/latestversionpath/ledgersmb.rpm

and, possibly with some automatic post-install checking, I can login 
and start creating company DBs.

Regards,

Phil.
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