Thus spake Lorn Kay ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> >
> >The biggest problems that need to be fixed:
> >
> >* create a no X11 mode (which would let you install without Perl-Tk)
>
> Yes. Yes. That would be great. Why deal with all that extra "X" stuff on a
> system (for example) that doesn't even have X loaded.
>
> >* someone from SystemImager project needs to post perl-XML-Simple rpm
> >
> >I think if both those things happen, all your problems will go away
> >(hopefully). Without this, the software is fundamentally broken for
> >most people, and I'm sure it is detering many users from the software.
> >
> >Thanks again for your feedback
> >
>
> If installer.pl could check for dependencies or the return status on each
> RPM and make suggestions (or download the Perl stuff required) that would
> be cool.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
I also think that would be a good thing to do. Can you make those
changes, Lorn?
Also, with regard to the perl-XML-simple issue, I seem to recall that
the last time I worked on that, I determined that making a single RPM
that would work across distributions would be difficult, perhaps not
possible. But that a better solution would be to produce error output
from installer.pl to point users to where they can download the
appropriate RPM for their distribution. This could simply be a list
(the easiest coding, and probably no reason to make it more difficult)
that is printed if the user doesn't have that package installed. I
would probably just do the top 5 distributions, and then additional
distributions as users send in additions. It could look something
like this:
SuSE 8.1:
http://alpaca.mcs.anl.gov/suse/i386/8.1/suse/i586/perl-XML-Simple-1.08-43.i586.rpm
Mandrake 9.1:
http://alpaca.mcs.anl.gov/Mandrake/9.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS/perl-XML-Simple-2.03-1mdk.noarch.rpm
Etc...
Join us on IRC for questions/details. You can get the irc info here:
http://www.systemimager.org/support/
Thanks for your participation!
-Brian
>
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