Index: trunk/server/doc/install-howto.sh
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-#                      SPHEROID SHENANIGANS
-
-# Install the Python eggs and Ruby gems and PEAR/PECL doohickeys that are on
-# the other scripts.mit.edu servers and do not have RPMs.
-# The general mode of operation will be to run the "list" command
-# on both servers, see what the differences are, check if those diffs
-# are packaged up as rpms, and install them (rpm if possible, native otherwise)
-
-# Note: Since ultimately we'd like to move away from using per-language
-# package manager and all of these be RPMs, it is of questionable
-# importance how much /good/ automation for these is necessary.
-
-# Warning: For a new release, we're supposed to check if Fedora has
-# packaged up the RPM.  Unfortunately we don't really have good incants
-# for this.
-
-# Warning: If you're installing a new server mid-lifecycle (or even if
-# this is the start of a cycle, but you've been staggering the
-# installation of servers), upstream may have moved on.  Because we
-# don't normally upgrade spheroid projects, that means executing these
-# instructions directly means that you will have mismatched versions
-# (the new servers will have newer versions.)  Please follow the
-# UPGRADE commentary attached to each of these.
-
-# Warning: The package lists that are generated are inconsistent on
-# the question of whether or not they contain all packages (locally
-# installed as well as distro packaged), or if they just contain locally
-# installed packages.  Check this carefully; many of the install incants
-# filter out already installed packages.
-
-# PERL CPAN
-# ---------
-
-# Install the full list of perl modules that users expect to be on the
-# scripts.mit.edu servers.
-    cd /root
-    export PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1
-    cpan # this is interactive, enter the next two lines
-        o conf prerequisites_policy follow
-        o conf commit
-# on a reference server
-perldoc -u perllocal | grep head2 | cut -f 3 -d '<' | cut -f 1 -d '|' | sort -u | perl -ne 'chomp; print "notest install $_\n" if system("rpm -q --whatprovides \"perl($_)\" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null")' > perl-packages.txt
-# arrange for perl-packages.txt to be transferred to server
-    # Package list only contains new packages
-    cat perl-packages.txt | perl -MCPAN -e shell
-# These are in /usr/local
-
-# UPGRADE: Installing old versions of CPAN modules requires you to
-# specify the full path of a module, e.g.
-# M/MS/MSCHWERN/Test-Simple-0.62.tar.gz.  It is not currently clear how
-# to get this information programatically.  Furthermore, we have a lot
-# of CPAN managed modules.  Since CPAN is the only thing
-# placed in /usr/local at this point, it may be easier to simple tar and
-# cp the Perl modules from one server to another, to keep them
-# consistent.  But doing this is fiddly XXX
-
-# PYTHON EGGS
-# -----------
-
-# - Look at /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages and
-#           /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages for Python eggs and modules.
-#   There will be a lot of gunk that was installed from packages;
-#   easy-install.pth in /usr/lib/ will tell you what was easy_installed.
-#   First use 'yum search' to see if the relevant package is now available
-#   as an RPM, and install that if it is.  If not, then use easy_install.
-#   Pass -Z to easy_install to install them unzipped, as some zipped eggs
-#   want to be able to write to ~/.python-eggs.  (Also makes sourcediving
-#   easier.)
-# 'easy_install AuthKit jsonlib2 pygit'
-cat /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth | grep "^./" | cut -c3- | cut -f1 -d- > egg.txt
-    # Package list only contains new packages
-    cat egg.txt | xargs easy_install -Z
-# These are in /usr
-
-# UPGRADE: Use 'easy_install -n' to see what new versions are installed, and if there
-# are updates validate them and upgrade them on the old servers.  Since
-# we have a really small package list (around 4) checking these manually
-# should be fine.  Note that dry run is slightly buggy and may fail
-# midway processing files on account of a missing build directory.
-
-# RUBY GEMS
-# ---------
-
-# - Look at `gem list` for Ruby gems.
-#   Again, use 'yum search' and prefer RPMs, but failing that, 'gem install'.
-#       ezyang: rspec-rails depends on rspec, and will override the Yum
-#       package, so... don't use that RPM yet
-# XXX This doesn't do the right thing for old version gems
-gem list --no-version > gem.txt
-    # Package list contains distro gems too
-    gem install $(gem list --no-version | grep -Fxvf - gem.txt)
-    # Also, we need to install the old rails version
-    gem install -v=2.3.14 rails
-# These are in /usr
-
-# UPGRADE:  You can either upgrade out-of-date gems, or leave them at
-# the old version.  We recommend the latter (see below for the
-# rationale), but note that the install script described here doesn't
-# pin against version, so you'll need to supply the -v parameters
-# manually (the gems we install manually don't move too quickly, so this
-# is fairly tractable if you check 'gem outdated'.)
-#
-# If you want to upgrade, do NOT use wildcard 'gem update'; use 'gem
-# outdated' to find out all gems that are out of date, and verify this
-# against our locally installed gems (there will be a lot of out of date
-# gems, but this is simply because Fedora packaging lags behind the
-# canonical versions (this is a good thing).  Manually upgrade just
-# those gems.  Note that this doesn't save you from having to install
-# old gems on the servers that are being installed out-of-cycle,
-# because Ruby supports pinning against old versions, and if those gems
-# then mysteriously disappear, things will be sad (note that this isn't
-# a *huge* problem, because usually when you pin gems it's in
-# conjunction with rvm, so they have their local copy of the gem.)
-
-# PHP PEAR
-# --------
-
-# - Look at `pear list` for Pear fruits (or whatever they're called).
-#   Yet again, 'yum search' for RPMs before resorting to 'pear install'.  Note
-#   that for things in the beta repo, you'll need 'pear install package-beta'.
-#   (you might get complaints about the php_scripts module; ignore them)
-pear list | tail -n +4 | cut -f 1 -d " " > pear.txt
-    # Package list contains distro packages
-    pear config-set preferred_state beta
-    pear channel-update pear.php.net
-    pear install $(pear list | tail -n +4 | cut -f 1 -d " " | grep -Fxvf - pear.txt)
-# These are in /usr
-
-# PHP PECL
-# --------
-
-# - Look at `pecl list` for PECL things.  'yum search', and if you must,
-#   'pecl install' needed items. If it doesn't work, try 'pear install
-#   pecl/foo' or 'pecl install foo-beta' or those two combined.
-pecl list | tail -n +4 | cut -f 1 -d " " > pecl.txt
-    # Package list contains distro packages
-    pecl install --nodeps $(pecl list | tail -n +4 | cut -f 1 -d " " | grep -Fxvf - pecl.txt)
-# These are in /usr
-
-# ----------------------------->8--------------------------------------
 #                       INFINITE CONFIGURATION