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flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

Ah "password"... I've been looking over the rt3 documentation. That's from rt2, but the password remains the same. I don't have the that command though in my /opt/rt3/bin/, but I can change it through the interface.

I'm moving on to the next machine. I should have that working in a few days to try out rt on before putting it in as "the" solution to our Exchange Public Folder Help Desk mess. :-)

Down with MS, up with Gentoo.

btw, it works great. I tried some of the zope stuff mentioned, but it was a whole new world for me. I'll get into that more later when I'm bored. It looks like it has potential, but is lacking in the "intuitave" interface that it seems to claim. It's very confusing, IMHO.
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flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

On a brand new new install (no CPAN installed) I get the following dep errors:

MAILGATE Deps:
HTML::TreeBuilder
HTML::FormatText

CORE Deps:
Class::ReturnValue
DBIx::SearchBuilder
Text::Template
Log::Dispatch
Locale::Maketext (1.03 in portage, but requires 1.04, I renamed the ebuild with the cooresponding number, but this did not fix the need.)
Locale::Maketext::Lexicon
Locale::Maketext::Fuzzy
MIME::Entity
Mail::Mailer (part of MailTools,but only 1.51 and needs 1.57)
Text::Wrapper
Time::ParseDate
Term::ReadKey
Text::AutoFormat
Text::Quoted

DEV Deps:
Regexp::Common
WWW::Mechanize

MySQL Deps:
DBD::mysql 2.1018 (solved by updating old ebuild, bug has been reported)
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flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

Mail::Mailer is provided by MailTools in portage, but it's v 1.51 and we need 1.57
Time::ParseDate is provided by Time-modules
HTML::TreeBuilder is provided by HTML-Tree
Locale::Maketext is provided by maketext, v 1.03 and need 1.04
EDIT::
MIME::Entity is provided by MIME-tool
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flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=30738 discusses a tool called g-cpan that may help significantly in solving the perl dep issues. Now I just need to figure out how to use it. :-)

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flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

yeah, I found out that's why I couldn't figure out how to use it. There is a bug posted already about it. I hope they get to it faster than most of the ones I've participated in before.
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flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

http://josiah.ritchietribe.net/b2/index.php?p=127&more=1&c=1 gives a download location for the ebuild with a few additional dependencies and a commented out list of others that still need to be met. Also, the currently working version of g-cpan.pl is there for download and the DBD-mysql-2.1026 ebuild also.
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steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

steveb · Advocate Joined: 18 Sep 2002 Posts: 4564

flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

New dep already in portage dev-perl/TermReadKey. Just sticking it here for documentation until we get it added to the ebuild.

Also https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20637 (The DBD-mysql update) had activity, changed hands to the Gentoo Perl Dev Team. :-)

I didn't realize we had one of those or I'd have sent it to them in the first place. :-)

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flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

I've got a bunch of perl deps and a refreshed rt ebuild in a tar file at http://josiah.ritchietribe.net/rtanddeps.tar. I have further comments on the file http://josiah.ritchietribe.net/b2/index.php?cat=3. steveb could you look over the rt ebuild at least and see if I royally messed anything up?
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Z? · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 5:29 am Post subject:

I'm not SteveB (obviously!), but I tried out your tarball, and the only problem I've run into so far is that you missed one dep: Text-Reform... not a big deal to add it, though, which is cool.

I'm really interested in getting this thing working under Apache2 + MySQL 4 + mod_perl, but it's being cranky (at best). I had no problems with RT under Apache 1.3.x, but man... this is -really- annoying... :cry:

Anyway, here's dev-perl/Text-Reform/Text-Reform-1.11.ebuild:

flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

I've found the RT email archives have been really helpful and actually asking a question if I don't find the asnwer of course.

http://www.bestpractical.com/rt/

I think there has been an issue with apache2. They don't recommend it on the list, but some have made it work. I had problems all over the place with it. I *think* I got that same error message and was told I could ignore it and that it is not uncommon. I have not yet been able to work with this much and other projects have entirely put getting RT on the network here on the back burner. (Almost have it done and gotta do a few other things. grr :roll:

)

Thanks for the Text-Reform ebuild. I was having a problem getting g-cpan.pl to make that one. I also had some others in which I had issues, but I'm not sure what they were. It's probably on a paper here somewhere...

Let us know what it takes to get in running in apache2 if you get a chance.
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Z? · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 10:27 pm Post subject:

I'll try my best.

There's no way to ignore that error, though -- apache refuses to start when it hits it... <sigh>

I'll see what I can dig up via the mailing list archives... I was hoping to avoid 'em, since they aren't searchable, but that's what grep's for.

flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

Z? · Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2003 11:08 pm Post subject:

Found it:

http://marc.free.net.ph/message/20030516.142133.b37fdd05.html

Basically, the gist of this is that webmux.pl needs to be modified:

Z? · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 4:58 am Post subject:

I've taken the liberty of creating an update to your work, flickerfly: I've got the last two ebuilds that were missing from the RT ebuild (Log::Dispatch and WWW::Mechanize), and fixed up the ebuild a bit so it's more robust (attempts - albeit very basically - to determine if we're installing under Apache 1.x or 2.x).

The new RT ebuild also includes the patch to webmux.pl, and it also installs a very basic .conf stub to /etc/apache2/conf/modules.d/99_rt.conf -- but only if you're using Apache 2.x.

I'd still like to clean up some of the dependency checking, but hey -- it's a start...

You can grab a tarball of all of the stuff I've done here.

Anybody know if this should really be posted/submitted somewhere else? It suddenly dawned on me that I'm probably getting WAY off topic now...

flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

No, I don't think this is off-topic at all.

That's great. I'm glad someone has been able to pick up where I left off. It was set to be a long time for me to continue work on this. I'll grab the tarball and put it on my website to replace mine. The RT list might like to know of the update and when you are comfortable with it's quality I'd post it as a bug and let us know so we can jump on the CC of it and watch until they finally get it added to portage. (or find a developer who will speed it through)

I really love the collaborative work that the net provides. Thanks for picking up my slack. :-)

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Z? · Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2003 9:31 pm Post subject:

Coolness...

...the only problem I've run into so far is that an
emerge --Dvup world
fails, because something's requiring dev-perl/mod_perl-1.27, which in turn requires net-www/apache-1* (which I have masked)... I can't figure it out... looks like it might be a bug in portage, 'cuz when I get rid of the --deep flag, everything works without a hitch. It's almost like portage ignores the PORTAGE_OVERLAY setting when --deep is specified... it's odd...

...anyway... now i'm getting off-topic...

Let me know if that tarball works for ya. I'd really like to clean up the DB dependency checks in rt-3.*.ebuild, but I'm not really sure why they're there... and I have -no- idea if the stuff I added to try and support Apache2 -and- Apache1 will work... the Apache2 stuff does (I tried that), but I haven't tried the Apache1 stuff... maybe that's what I'll do tonight.

...and as far as the collaborative thing goes, it's definitely cool. :lol:

flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

It'll probably be about a week and 1/2 or more before I can try it out. I've got vacation next week and projects above this in priority unfortunately.

That does seem odd that it only happens with the use of '-D' I've never actually tried it with deep so I'm not sure if it was doing this before or not.
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