[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Cleaning up OpenSRF Makefile.install

[Dan Scott]

2008/11/24 Bill Erickson <erickson at esilibrary.com>:
> On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:40:59 -0500, Dan Scott <dan at coffeecode.net> wrote:
>
>> I've been working, on and off, on trying to ensure that the prereqs
>> for OpenSRF are as minimal as possible in the Makefile.install. One of
>> the goals is to make OpenSRF as viable a project on its own as it can
>> be, meaning that it should not drag along unnecessary prereqs.
>>
>> So with that in mind, do the following enabled Apache mods properly
>> belong to OpenSRF? We have the osrf_http_translator and
>> osrf_json_gateway modules, but if pressed I would think that these
>> more properly belong in the Evergreen Makefile.install. Confirmation
>> would be appreciated, however.
>>
>> DEB_APACHE_MODS = \
>>        expires\
>>        include\
>>        proxy\
>>        proxy_http\
>>        rewrite\
>>        ssl
>
> Confirmed.  I could see leaving SSL in there, just so the gateway modules
> could run encrypted out of the box, but it's certainly not required.  The
> other modules are definitely EG only.
>
>>
>> And then we have the CPAN modules that may no longer be necessary in
>> recent distributions. We probably don't want to build modules from
>> source if we can rely on the distribution's packages. The only one
>> below that we might not want to use packages for in modern distros is
>> Net::Server, as 0.94 was available in Debian Etch and there seemed to
>> be a deliberate choice to build the older version - again, insight
>> would be appreciated:
>>
>> # generic CPAN modules:
>> #   * DateTime::Format::ISO8601 is packaged by both Debian Lenny and
>> Ubuntu Intrepid
>> #   * JSON::XS is packaged by both Debian Lenny and Ubuntu Intrepid
>> #   * XML::LibXML::XPathContext is part of libxml-libxml-perl on
>> Debian Lenny and Ubuntu Intrepid
>> #   * libnet-server-perl 0.97 is packaged on Debian Lenny and Ubuntu
>> Intrepid
>> #     - is there a specific need for 0.90?
>> CPAN_MODULES = \
>>        DateTime::Format::ISO8601 \
>>        RHANDOM/Net-Server-0.90.tar.gz \
>>        JSON::XS \
>>        XML::LibXML::XPathContext
>
>
> Also confirmed.  We explicitly install Net::Server 0.90 because of
> instability problems with newer versions.  I haven't tested the latest
> (0.97) and the changelog for 0.96 looks promising, but I can say 0.94 has
> problems.
>
> Also, libjson-xs-perl is not available in Etch.
>
> The other modules can definitely be removed from the CPAN list.
>
>
> Thank, Dan!

So, a few updates:

  * Net::Server 0.97 appears to work in my limited testing so far on Intrepid
  * I've left ssl in the Apache mods list for OpenSRF, otherwise the
rest were moved to Evergreen
  * The packaged CPAN modules on Intrepid also appear to be working well

I've added release-specific targets for each distro to the OpenSRF and
Evergreen prerequisite installers make files:

debian-etch
debian-lenny

ubuntu-gutsy
ubuntu-hardy
ubuntu-intrepid

I renamed the old "debian" and "ubuntu" targets to "generic_debian"
and "generic_ubuntu" respectively, and made them subsets of their
particular parent distro. All of these changes have been made in trunk
so far, but I would be happy to backport them to OpenSRF rel_1_0 and
Evergreen rel_1_4 if it was so desired.

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University