The project I'm involved with installed it on FreeBSD, with
occasional hassles during upgrades (which I should add were
overcome with never too much grief, and we always had great
response from both David (bricolage dev/king), and Rod
(FreeBSD port maintainer). It will handle all dependencies
using it's ports system, which is an exellent piece of work.
We've found FreeBSD to be a great platform for all that we
needed (no surprise there).
I share your love of _some_ kind of package management for
handling software, so this system fit the bill. You _will_
require *BSD experience, or a strong-ish *nix background,
and a will to learn. That said, if you don't have that
experience, and are only doing this for a trial machine,
it's a great opportunity to learn.
Our setup is running FreeBSD6.1 (latest stable) on an AMD64
platform, with all necessary software built from ports.
Ports is a build system where source and patches are built
on your machine, allowing for some customization (whether
from build-flags, compile-time, options, or other)... I see
that there's a binary package available for the i386
platform too, if you don't want to compile the software for
whatever reason, but I've got no experience with that
particular package. For more info on FreeBSD, see http://www.freebsd.org,
the FreeBSD handbook at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/b
ooks/handbook/index.html, and in particular, the
ports/pkg section at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/b
ooks/handbook/ports.html
On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 08:52:01PM -0700, David Christensen
wrote:
> Bricolage users:
>
> I have some Linux/ Apache/ MySQL/ Perl experience and
would like to
> build a test machine to evaluate Bricolage.
>
>
> My preferred OSS O/S is Debian 3.1. I tried to install
bricolage-1.10.2
> on that tonight:
>
> 1. I read and followed README.Debian.
> http://peo
ple.debian.org/~erich/bricolage/ no longer exists, so I
can't
> use Apt. So, I installed apache-perl, apache-dev,
postgresql,
> postgresql-dev, expat, and unzip as instructed.
>
> 2. I read README.
>
> 3. I read and attempted to follow INSTALL. Installing
the required
> Perl modules turned into a huge disaster, so I gave up.
>
>
> What is the easiest Linux or BSD distribution for
installing Bricolage
> -- e.g. by using the O/S package management system to
install binaries
> of both Bricolage and everything it depends on?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> David
>
--
-bch
|
I've installed and played with FreeBSD and NetBSD over the
years, and
FreeBSD does seem to be a popular and robust platform.
> I see that there's a binary package available for the
i386 platform
Okay. I'll keep that in mind if I can't make it happen with
Debian.
David