Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-17 Thread Stefan Hornburg
Sven Sternberger wrote: > Hello! > > just my 2c, Request Tracker is really a nice piece of > Software which helps our organisation a lot > > BUT > > the distribution is a mess, the only thing an average > sysadmin wants to do is to install via the package > manager on his RT server, and to run f

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-17 Thread Sven Sternberger
Hello! just my 2c, Request Tracker is really a nice piece of Software which helps our organisation a lot BUT the distribution is a mess, the only thing an average sysadmin wants to do is to install via the package manager on his RT server, and to run from time to time an update with his package

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-17 Thread Stefan Hornburg
Ruslan Zakirov wrote: > On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Toby Darling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Stefan Hornburg wrote, On 16/04/2008 15:26: >> >>> Vivek Khera wrote: >> >> On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Mike Peachey wrote: >> >>> I disagree. Distribution packaging systems cause a LOT of RT

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-16 Thread Mathew Snyder
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mathew Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:43 PM Subject: Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded To: Winn Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The cpan manpage doesn't list an 'f&

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-16 Thread Winn Johnston
Mat, How about trying cpan -if HTML::FormatText cpan -if XML::RS cpan -if Apache::DBI -winn --- Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to make the (re-)installation of RT as > painless as possible > for future generations. I've encountered a problem > though in that I > can't get

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-16 Thread Mathew
It's all well and good that you folks find distro-specific packages easy to use but a: Debian's easiness doesn't matter to a person asking about RHEL 5 (for which there is no Red Hat supplied RPM) and b: not everyone uses packages for their installation making your opinions moot. Anyone have a

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-16 Thread Ruslan Zakirov
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Toby Darling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Stefan Hornburg wrote, On 16/04/2008 15:26: > > > Vivek Khera wrote: > >> On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Mike Peachey wrote: > >>> I disagree. Distribution packaging systems cause a LOT of RT > >>> problems. Manual ins

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-16 Thread Ruslan Zakirov
Apache-DBI is only required when you're using mod_perl and even in this case it's optional. Are you going to use mod_perl? Without errors we couldn't help you install other modules. On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to make the (re-)installation of RT

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-16 Thread Toby Darling
Stefan Hornburg wrote, On 16/04/2008 15:26: > Vivek Khera wrote: >> On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Mike Peachey wrote: >>> I disagree. Distribution packaging systems cause a LOT of RT >>> problems. Manual installation or platform-independent packaging is a >>> much better way of managing RT and

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-16 Thread Stefan Hornburg
Vivek Khera wrote: > On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Mike Peachey wrote: >> I disagree. Distribution packaging systems cause a LOT of RT >> problems. Manual installation or platform-independent packaging is a >> much better way of managing RT and using CPAN to perform perl >> installations is by

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-16 Thread Vivek Khera
On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Mike Peachey wrote: > I disagree. Distribution packaging systems cause a LOT of RT > problems. Manual installation or platform-independent packaging is a > much better way of managing RT and using CPAN to perform perl > installations is by far the best automatabl

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-16 Thread Mike Peachey
Vivek Khera wrote: > On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Mathew wrote: >> I'm not installing RT via RPM. That's something that is unnecessary >> and not preferable. I just need to know how to install the three >> modules. >> >> Vivek Khera wrote: >>> On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Mathew wrote:

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-16 Thread Vivek Khera
On Apr 15, 2008, at 5:45 PM, Mathew wrote: > I'm not installing RT via RPM. That's something that is unnecessary > and not preferable. I just need to know how to install the three > modules. > > Vivek Khera wrote: >> On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Mathew wrote: >>> I'm trying to make the (re-

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-15 Thread Mathew
I'm not installing RT via RPM. That's something that is unnecessary and not preferable. I just need to know how to install the three modules. Vivek Khera wrote: > On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Mathew wrote: >> I'm trying to make the (re-)installation of RT as painless as possible >> for future

Re: [rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-15 Thread Vivek Khera
On Apr 15, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Mathew wrote: > I'm trying to make the (re-)installation of RT as painless as possible > for future generations. I've encountered a problem though in that I Then don't install it by hand; use a package manager for whatever OS you've got and install the RT package

[rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but no one responded

2008-04-15 Thread Mathew
I'm trying to make the (re-)installation of RT as painless as possible for future generations. I've encountered a problem though in that I can't get HTML::FormatText, XML::RSS or Apache-DBI to install through `make fixdeps`. As a result I've written a small script which parses the output of `