install.sh

[Julian Field]

This is something I plan on putting some time into, as soon as I get any
time to do it! :-)

At 23:00 10/03/2004, you wrote:
>David Lee wrote:
>>Myself, I used to be a hardened "configure/make/test/install" advocate.
>>But I'm coming round to the view (each case on its merits, of course) of
>>recognising the value of an "install.sh".  And in the case of MS, my RH
>>("install.sh") vs. Solaris ("configure/make/test/install") experience is
>>now heavily in favour of the "install.sh" option (for us, at our site).
>
>While I agree with what you say and use both Solaris and Linux at work
>and at home, for MailScanner and other purposes, I want to make two points:
>
>1. While I work on the upgrade, even though it takes 30 minutes instead
>of 5, my server is in full production until I'm sure everything is
>correct and I move the symlink. Not so with the Linux way which leads me
>to...
>
>2. If something goes wrong at any point I can back out in 5 seconds by
>symlinking back to the old dist which is fully configured as I left it.
>
>Those two points have a lot of value to me. But I don't want to start a
>discussion around this, what I wanted to ask you and Julian is if
>there's going to be a portable install.sh for all distributions or one
>separate for the tar distribution? Also, will it come with Solaris
>packages? You posted recently about sending Julian a portable install.sh
>working on Solaris and Julian has been asking about Solaris packages
>some weeks ago and I, among others, offered to help out.
>
>I understand the last month has been h--l for us all but I just wanted
>to know if it's something that is being/will be worked on further. I'm
>so interested in this that I will do something Solaris specific
>(complete with SA and Clam) soon but since Julians first release would
>probably embarrass my efforts I just want to hear from him before I
>start. :-)
>
>--
>/Peter Bonivart
>
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>
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