I'm curious about what can be done to simplify packaging and installation of EFS. I've encountered a number of problems that make it a bit difficult to use OpenEFS in both corporate and commercial environments.
The first is the basic install instructions. Threre don't seem to be any. I've now worked through installing OpenEFS a couple times on ubunutu and partially on Centos 5.3 and would be happy to send you my notes if that would help as a starter? I have to say that hacking through MakeInstall.pl and debugging dependencies is never fun. Even less so if you happen to be a Perl neophyte like myself. Unfortunately I haven't had time to make expect scripts for all the basic scripts I put together, but maybe it would be helpful regardless. It seems like the optimal scenario would be to get to a point where someone could just "yum/apt-get/rpm OpenEFS", and then just jump to configuring the client and server conf files. It would be especially nice to have both the CPAN modules and other dependencies in a single package. The other issue I encountered is the dependency on Perl5.10. Many of the folks we work with are on some combination of RHEL/Centos 4.8-5.1. But all those versions and even the later 5.3 & 5.4 series use a version of Perl older than 5.10. If you know RHEL and Centos then you know that replacing the version of perl that comes bundled with the platform can break so many things. (The only way I know to make it work is to strip the OS down to the ground and rebuild all the packages all the way back up, which isn't a valid approach in the real word) It would be a lot easier if both the install script and the code itself could be configured to use a separate perl installation than the default of the platform. -- Regards, Anthony
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