[LON-CAPA-dev] new install.lon-capa.org pages

Scott Harrison lon-capa-dev@mail.lon-capa.org
Tue, 23 Apr 2002 09:35:14 -0400


Dear All:

Rather than postpone things any longer, I updated
http://install.lon-capa.org/ with new pages.

Note:
* the layout of the pages can be easily customized by making changes
  to loncom/build/doc_template.pl (in a very loose sense, like a
  stylesheet thing)
* machine-specific PerlSetVar's inside access.conf have yet to go inside
  loncapa.conf; nonetheless, the installation pages assume this has happened
* the ./UPGRADE & ./TEST commands released with the tarball (make tardist)
  are really alpha-level; nonetheless, the installation pages refer to
  them
* the FAQ on install.lon-capa.org still needs major improvement...
  it is only meant to be a subset of http://help.lon-capa.org/.
* the ./CHECKRPMS command is ummm not quite written yet; essentially
  the goal is to use Siegert's check-rpms command; the problem will
  be with system administrators trying to resolve those blasted
  dependencies (something we will TRY to resolve by publishing a
  "these are all the current rpms that belong on your system)
* building install.lon-capa.org web pages is described in
  doc/how_to_install_loncapa_org.txt

There are a number of many different sentences I would probably reword.

Any and all suggestions are welcome.  I am now rushing out of town
for two days, but should get back to you Thursday evening.

Sorry for the alpha-push, but I would rather gear things up now
and experience pain than wait for the month to elapse and not
have things come together.  I will try to access.conf --> loncapa.conf
on my laptop and CVS commit on Thursday or Friday.

Regards,
Scott

-- 
Scott Harrison, harris41@msu.edu

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