And, so, actually, I have to wonder if putting together a redhat style installation is a long term good or not.

I recall that someone a million years ago made a windows installer for Koha and released it into the wild and so now every few months someone finds it and tries to use it and gets confused.

I don't predict being able to support a full on always current redhat collection of packages -- so maybe the world is safer as things stand now?

-reed



On 27 November 2016 at 23:24, Reed Wade <reed@typist.geek.nz> wrote:

Yes... I have some memory now of Lars getting some large set of non-debian packaged dependent products debian packaged before he was able to package up Koha.

I'll make some experiments..

-reed


On 27 November 2016 at 22:34, Mark Tompsett <mtompset@hotmail.com> wrote:
Greetings,
 
Reed Wade asked:
> If I had some spare time, what would a minimally useful koha
> related redhat style something look like?
> Is it the packaging or the build recipe or both?
 
Given that koha is generally installed for production with: sudo apt-get install koha-common
(plus the other steps)
The ability to: yum install koha-common
Because an RPM existed would be nice, plus RPMs for the 18ish
(it was around that number last I checked) libraries that are not
available in the default CentOS repos.
 
Granted, I do not use CentOS regularly, but I was crazy enough to try non-Debian installs with it and even attempted a native Windows install a while back. Sadly, Windows natively is just too painful to succeed.
 
GPML,
Mark Tompsett

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