From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: spew@80x24.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/7] INSTALL: update for 2023, NetBSD and OpenBSD
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 11:21:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230912112153.2484197-2-e@80x24.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230912112153.2484197-1-e@80x24.org>
And I should probably update some systems for Debian bookworm
at some point...
---
INSTALL | 21 +++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 13a1bdc6..44c774d4 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -5,17 +5,17 @@ This is for folks who want to set up their own public-inbox instance.
Clients should use normal git-clone/git-fetch, IMAP or NNTP clients
if they want to import mail into their personal inboxes.
-As of 2022, public-inbox is packaged by several OS distributions,
+As of 2023, public-inbox is packaged by several OS distributions,
listed in alphabetical order: Debian, GNU Guix, NixOS, and Void Linux.
public-inbox is developed on Debian GNU/Linux systems and will
never depend on packages outside of the "main" component of
-the "stable" distribution, currently Debian 10.x ("buster"),
-but older versions of Debian remain supported.
+the "oldstable" distribution, currently Debian 11.x ("bullseye"),
+but older versions of Debian remain supported (as are newer ones).
-Most packages are available in other GNU/Linux distributions
-and FreeBSD. CentOS 7.x users will likely want newer git and
-Xapian packages for better performance and v2 inbox support:
+Most packages are available in other GNU/Linux distributions,
+FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. CentOS 7.x users will likely want
+newer git and Xapian for better performance and v2 inbox support:
https://public-inbox.org/meta/20210421151308.yz5hzkgm75klunpe@nitro.local/
TODO: this still needs to be documented better,
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ but required for older releases:
(for broken, mostly historical emails)
Where "deb" indicates package names for Debian-derived distributions,
-"pkg" is for the FreeBSD package (maybe other common BSDs, too), and
+"pkg" is for the FreeBSD package (and some other common BSDs, too), and
"rpm" is for RPM-based distributions (only known to work on Fedora).
Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
pkg: p5-Xapian (FreeBSD, NetBSD)
xapian-bindings-perl (OpenBSD)
rpm: perl-Search-Xapian
- (HTTP and IMAP search)
+ (lei; HTTP and IMAP search)
- Inline::C deb: libinline-c-perl
pkg: p5-Inline-C
@@ -94,7 +94,8 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
- Mail::IMAPClient deb: libmail-imapclient-perl
pkg: p5-Mail-IMAPClient
rpm: perl-Mail-IMAPClient
- (only for lei and public-inbox-watch)
+ (only for lei and public-inbox-watch
+ when reading from IMAP)
- BSD::Resource deb: libbsd-resource-perl
pkg: p5-BSD-Resource
@@ -115,7 +116,7 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well:
pkg: xapian-core
rpm: xapian-core
(for public-inbox-compact(1) and
- public-inbox-cindex(1))
+ public-inbox-cindex(1))
* curl (tool) deb, pkg, rpm: curl
(for HTTP(S) externals with curl)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-12 11:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-12 11:21 [PATCH 1/7] move deps.perl into new install/ directory Eric Wong
2023-09-12 11:21 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2023-09-12 11:21 ` [PATCH 3/7] tests: favor IO::Socket::IP for IPv6 listeners Eric Wong
2023-09-12 11:21 ` [PATCH 4/7] updates around RPM packages on CentOS 7.x Eric Wong
2023-09-12 11:21 ` [PATCH 5/7] install: note curl Eric Wong
2023-09-12 11:21 ` [PATCH 6/7] tests: allow more tests to pass without xapian-compact Eric Wong
2023-09-12 11:21 ` [PATCH 7/7] ok-pkg Eric Wong
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