[Dibs-discussion] user experience installing

[Eric S. J. <es...@in...>]

here are some notes from my installation experiences

Red Hat fedora 1 and Gentoo

setup.py: gets real cranky if you don't have documentation tools you
count on installed.  The easy solution was to comment out all
documentation related elements within setup.py.  Try to find the RPMs
for the missing pieces was just too much work.  Gentoo made it possible
to find missing pieces after some searching.

building gpg key: built into default location (~root/.gnupg/...) with
e-mail address esj...@ha...

unfortunately dibsPublicKey dibsPrivateKey description really doesn't
make sense.  How does a e-mail address translate to a location of the
keys?  if you mean it's the e-mail address keyed to the key pair, then
say so.

Also, if you own all of the machines that you're backing up to/from, all
of the keys will have the same e-mail address.  Not good.  Should
probably change the documentation to handle the case of one entity
owning all machines in the backup cluster.

for example, if you decide to use the same e-mail name for all keys on
all machines, exporting the user's public key from the public key ring
before importing anything is probably a good idea.

more as I trip over them.

---eric