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...


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Thanks for your participation!

-Brian



I can do it in bash. I'd be happy to contribute a wiz-bang do-it-all 100% portable installer in bash (I've already converted most all of installer.pl's functionality to bash already).


If this is okay let me know and I'll be happy to participate.

--Karl

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