Re: Installing Arusha on a new site (long, but dull)

[Shprentz, J. [C] <Shp...@ni...>]

Yesterday I wrote:

> I finally had a chance to try installing Arusha on a
> sacrificial virgin machine.  Here are a few notes from
> my trials ...
>
> ...
>
> At the end of the day, Arusha is installed.  Tomorrow I
> will rip it out and confirm that the installation can run
> from start to finish without error.

That worked!  Arusha installed itself without error.

Now I am ready to start installing packages.

I notice that sidai/ALL.xml defines a process dependent on Arusha-installed
versions of gzip, tar, gcc, and md5sum (from textutils).  I had better
install those first.  Let's see ... gcc needs texinfo, texinfo needs tar,
tar needs gcc.  Uh oh!

Only a handful of Sidai packages rely on preArusha-installed software
(designated, for example, GNU-MAKE-BOOT): binutils, gcc, gzip, texinfo, and
textutils.  In addition to the documented prerequisite software gcc, Perl,
and Python (with PyXml), they require GNU make and md5sum.  They expect
Arusha-installed tar and gzip.

My next three steps are:

1. Install additional prerequisite software: gzip, GNU make, GNU tar, and
md5sum.

2. Identify a core set of initial packages.

3. Modify those packages to make explicit their interdependencies and to use
preinstalled software where needed.
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Joel Shprentz
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