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| author | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2021-02-03 15:51:43 -0600 |
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| committer | Eric Wong <e@80x24.org> | 2021-02-04 01:41:04 +0000 |
| commit | 92dd30285b579204b242df3e12b57b926083b666 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a60d502bad9e13d53a49f44618a7389a9b462eb /INSTALL | |
| parent | 3378cc4b85cc9ee091b7ae1b340e525e61e188ea (diff) | |
| download | public-inbox-92dd30285b579204b242df3e12b57b926083b666.tar.gz | |
The new IPC stuff doesn't work without Storable or Sereal. Storable is part of the standard library since Perl 5.8, so we'll put a hard dependency on it for distros that package it separately. Data::Dumper is also part of the standard library, and PublicInbox::MboxReader uses it, and it's frequently useful during development. We'll also trim down INSTALL for standard library modules so it's hopefully less daunting for new users. Development dependencies are noted in HACKING, now. Email::MIME is only used for maintainer tests, so it's only documented in HACKING.
Diffstat (limited to 'INSTALL')
| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL | 69 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 49 deletions
@@ -31,23 +31,13 @@ To accept incoming mail into a public inbox, you'll likely want: * MTA - postfix is recommended (for public-inbox-mda) * SpamAssassin (spamc/spamd) (for public-inbox-watch/public-inbox-mda) -Beyond that, there is a long list of Perl modules required, starting with: - -* Digest::SHA typically installed with Perl - rpm: perl-Digest-SHA +Beyond that, there is one non-standard Perl module required: * URI::Escape deb: liburi-perl pkg: p5-URI rpm: perl-URI (for HTML/Atom generation) -Email::MIME will be optional as of public-inbox v1.5.0, -it may still be used in maintainer comparison tests: - -* Email::MIME deb: libemail-mime-perl - pkg: p5-Email-MIME - rpm: perl-Email-MIME - Plack and Date::Parse are optional as of public-inbox v1.3.0, but required for older releases: @@ -72,8 +62,8 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well: rpm: perl-DBD-SQLite (for v2, IMAP, NNTP, or gzipped mboxes) -- Search::Xapian deb: libsearch-xapian-perl - pkg: p5-Search-Xapian +- Search::Xapian or Xapian(.pm) deb: libsearch-xapian-perl + pkg: p5-Search-Xapian OR p5-Xapian rpm: perl-Search-Xapian (HTTP and IMAP search) @@ -121,35 +111,19 @@ Numerous optional modules are likely to be useful as well: rpm: xapian-core (optional, for public-inbox-compact(1)) -The following modules are typically pulled in by dependencies listed -above, so there is no need to explicitly install them: +- Linux::Inotify2 deb: liblinux-inotify2-perl + rpm: perl-Linux-Inotify2 + (for public-inbox-watch and -imapd on Linux) -* Encode deb: libperl5.$MINOR (or libencode-perl) - pkg: perl5 - rpm: perl-Encode - (likely installed with Perl) +The following module is typically pulled in by dependencies listed +above, so there is no need to explicitly install them: - DBI deb: libdbi-perl pkg: p5-DBI rpm: perl-DBI (pulled in by DBD::SQLite) -* Devel::Peek deb: libperl5.$MINOR (e.g. libperl5.24) - pkg: perl5 - rpm: perl-Devel-Peek - (optional for stale FD cleanup in daemons, - typically installed alongside Perl5) - -- Linux::Inotify2 deb: liblinux-inotify2-perl - rpm: perl-Linux-Inotify2 - (for public-inbox-watch and -imapd on Linux) - -- IO::Compress (::Gzip) deb: perl-modules (or libio-compress-perl) - pkg: perl5 - rpm: perl-IO-Compress - (for gzipped mbox over HTTP, v2 format) - -Uncommonly needed modules: +Uncommonly needed modules (see HACKING for development-only modules): - Socket6 deb: libsocket6-perl pkg: p5-Socket6 @@ -163,20 +137,6 @@ Uncommonly needed modules: pkg: p5-Crypt-CBC (for PublicInbox::Unsubscribe (rarely used)) -Optional packages testing and development: - -- Plack::Test deb: libplack-test-perl - pkg: p5-Plack - rpm: perl-Plack-Test - -- Test::Simple deb: perl-modules-5.$MINOR - pkg: perl5 - rpm: perl-Test-Simple - -- XML::TreePP deb: libxml-treepp-perl - pkg: p5-XML-TreePP - rpm: perl-XML-TreePP - standard MakeMaker installation (Perl) -------------------------------------- @@ -206,6 +166,17 @@ will not destroy critical data. See the public-inbox-overview(7) man page for the next steps once the installation is complete. +The following required packages are part of the Perl standard +library. Debian-based distros put them in "libperl5.$MINOR" or +"perl-modules-5.$MINOR"; and FreeBSD puts them in "perl5". +RPM-based distros split them out into separate packages: + +* Digest::SHA rpm: perl-Digest-SHA +* Data::Dumper rpm: perl-Data-Dumper +* Encode rpm: perl-Encode +* IO::Compress rpm: perl-IO-Compress +* Storable rpm: perl-Storable + Copyright --------- |