[imp] imp inStalLation under Red Hat 8

[Rodolfo Segleau]

 | ----- Message from hammond at matrixtek.com ---------
 |     Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:59:25 -0600
 |     From: "Kevin G. Hammond" <hammond at matrixtek.com>
 | Reply-To: "Kevin G. Hammond" <hammond at matrixtek.com>
 |  Subject: RE: [imp] imp inStalLation under Red Hat 8
 |       To: Research and Development <r_and_d at amersol.edu.pe>, imp 
<imp at lists.horde.org>
 | 
 | 
 | http://www.matrixtek.com/resources/tools/rh80-imp-faq.html
 | 

 good documentation, though i would add the warning on the sendmail rpm 
installation of redhat 8.0 which requires two .mc and .cf files (one for 
sendmail itself and then the clientmqueue process which uses the submit.mc 
file) - that is, of course, anyone wants to use sendmail - many might prefer 
qmail - but i'm an old sendmail diehard. 

 | FYI, I still don't understand the whole CVS thing.
 | 

  CVS is a system that controls several concurrent versions of the same 
software. if you check the headers on this email, you'll see i'm also using the 
CVS version of imp (and therefore the CVS version of horde itself). It's simply 
a service to be able to keep track of several releases. what you really need to 
know for horde is how to download and "install" (really configure) horde from 
CVS. It's not really that different from all the other stuff you have to do 
anyway and it gives you more control to where you put the files. The cvs site 
has a pretty standard way of getting the code, though i have a script developed 
to download the entire tree and to do updates (if anyone wants it, i'll post 
it). 
 
 | Why can't
 | developers put together good installation instructions???  And you
 
 i hate to be the stinker on this one, but the installation instructions for 
the basic modules (horde, imp and turba) are pretty complete. the problem 
usually arises when things are installed from rpms without the complete 
knowledge of what's needed (which is in the INSTALL and README documents of 
Horde). If you have a better way of documenting the installation procedure (or 
the configuration procedure), by all means do submit (or post on a url) the 
information - though i think it would be better to maintain everything in the 
FAQ (http://faq.horde.org). 



Cheers, 

Rodolfo

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