Re: Fedora 14 Install Script

[Philip Rhoades <..hidden..>]

Chris,


On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:39:52 -0700, Chris Travers wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:08 AM, Philip Rhoades <..hidden..> 
> wrote:
> > The main hassle for me in the past every time I have looked at the
> > install is that I have tried to install all the appropriate Perl 
> > RPMs so
> > that I don't need to do a CPAN install (which is not nice - I want 
> > to
> > minimise non-RPM installs). ÂI have always been, eventually,
> > unsuccessful and had to fall back to CPAN.
>
> Have you tried something like
>
> If you point yum at the rpm it should install the dependencies.  If 
> it
> doesn't please file a bug.


? I haven't been able to look at this for a while but are you saying 
there is a v1.3 RPM?


> > What do you mean? ÂWhy should creating an RPM be unfriendly? - it
> > should be the opposite for other apps . .
>
> The issue here actually is that the amount of Pg installation and
> configuration we can do.  I personally think we cannot do much here.
> We could provide model pg_hba.conf files for people who are running 
> no
> other apps.  For 1.3, I would like to put forth a special "database"
> rpm that would install the Pg server, and provide model configuration
> files, command line installation tools, etc.  But I don't think we 
> can
> safely modify the pg_hba.conf


I agree.


> > PG was never really an issue for me . . mostly Perl . .
>
> Ok, so we are talking about different issues.   The RPM for some time
> has been designed to be usable with yum so that automatic 
> installation
> of perl dependencies is possible.  Those dependencies that are not
> otherwise possible to install with yum, we provide.


You are still talking about v1.2 right?

Thanks,

Phil.
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