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Subject: Re: Installation Issues & Suggestions
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs @ math . uh . edu>
Date: 10 Oct 2000 15:31:35 -0500
To: Mj2 Development Lists <majordomo-workers @ greatcircle . com>, mj2-dev @ csf . colorado . edu
In-reply-to: Brock Rozen's message of "Tue, 10 Oct 2000 21:49:01 +0200 (IST)"
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>>>>> "BR" == Brock Rozen <brozen@torah.org> writes:

BR> While it's fairly easy, at last count (and my last count is fairly
BR> old), you had to setup domains during the installation process, as well
BR> as various other settings.

The reason for this is that some things are actually written into the
scripts as they are installed.  This frees us from having to put a
configuration file in a "well known" location.  That's not a very good
reason, however, because it's essentially trumped by the need for
system-independent packages and adding domains at runtime.

BR> I don't know...isn't there any other way to do this?

Yes, there is.  We need to allow for an external configuration file and
move into it nearly everything that gets written into the scripts by
installbin.  (I think what can stay is LOCK_EX, LOCK_NB, LOCK_UN, O_WRONLY,
O_CREAT, O_EXCL and we would need to include the path to the config file.)

The only problem with this is time.

 - J<



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