Re: Changed ISPMan Installation

Jörg Delker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.isp.ispman.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Wim Kerkhoff wrote:

> Any decent/recent Unix/Linux operating system has decent package 
> management that handles all these dependencies, downloading, and 
> installing them. For example, Debian already has packages of many CPAN 
> modules. With the CPAN.pm module, it's super easy to script out actions 
> such as checking that a list of modules are installed, and if not 
> prompting the user whether to automatically install them.

That was the main idea behind it.

> So my opinion (for what it's worth :-) ) is that removing those modules 
> from the lib/ directory is a good step. Having them bundled as tarballs 
> in CVS feels kludgy; the "CVS way" is to store only scripts/code in CVS, 
> not binaries (compressed/compiled code). So, a simple script that uses 
> wget to download all the modules directly from a CPAN mirror makes more 
> sense.

Well, I certainly agree that tarballs (or binaries at all) aren't a nice 
thing to hold in CVS and in fact, I hesitated quite some while before 
doing so.

The problem is, ISPMan has (IMHO) to provide a reference for perl libs 
that are proven to work with that specific release.
Now, I had the same idea to just fetch them via wget, but I figured that 
some (older) releases were not downloadable from CPAN any more.
Although this is no problem with current releases, it may render an 
ISPMan release unusable/uninstallable over time eventually.

So finally, I was just left with the choice of bundling the perl libs 
with ispman.

> I run amavisd-new on several servers... all I do is run 'apt-get install 
> amavisd-new clamav' and it handles everything :-)

That's exactly what I'm having in mind and getting those debian packages 
ready is now only a matter of time ;)

Joerg


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