Improvements to install.sh ?

[Kai Schaetzl]

Julian Field wrote on Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:52:39 +0100:

> Today I have done some work on both the README and the QuickInstall.txt 
> files, to bring the up to date and to simplify them.

Just yesterday, I read them before doing a new install of MS and wondered 
about "Red Hat 8.0". ;-)

> 
> Also I have documented the "./install.sh fast" option, so people who 
> read the docs know it exists, as it greatly speeds things up if you know 
> what you're doing and don't need to read all the output.
> 
> But what would people like to see improved in the actual installation 
> script, install.sh?

An option to only install rpm's that are necessary for the respective OS. 
You could provide this for a short list of the most used OSes. e.g. a lot 
of the Perl modules you want to install are part of the main Perl on newer 
systems and conflict with them. This gives especially a hard time in case 
the system Perl gets updated (usually a security update). It can even lead 
to a case of a non-updatable Perl!

eg. install-sh --system rhel5 would only install
rpm -ivh tnef*
rpm -ivh mailscanner*

as *all* attached Perl modules are *not* necessary on that platform. They 
are either part of RHEL/CentOS 5 or can be installed via rpmforge.

(yum install perl-Convert-BinHex perl-Convert-TNEF perl-Convert-BinHex 
perl-Convert-TNEF perl-DBD-SQLite perl-Filesys-Df perl-IO-stringy perl-
MIME-tools perl-Net-CIDR perl-OLE-Storage_Lite perl-Pod-Escapes perl-Pod-
Simple perl-Test-Pod perl-Time-HiRes)

As for the setup actions in the mailscanner*.rpm itself, I wonder if it 
wouldn't be time to adjust it so it works for Postfix as well. I've changed 
to Postfix on my new setups and followed the instructions on 
http://www.mailscanner.info/postfix.html and in MailScanner.conf
That worked right from the beginning and I think it shouldn't be difficult 
to do this via script or provide an alternative MailScanner.conf and 
provide the few filesystem actions with a script.

Kai

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