Changes between Version 11 and Version 12 of DownloadDebianPackages

Timestamp:

2008-06-17T20:47:47Z (16 years ago)

Author:

warner

Comment:

move some docs out to source:docs/debian.txt

DownloadDebianPackages

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+= Debian Packages =
+
 Precompiled Tahoe packages are available for Debian-like systems, using
 recent releases of Debian or Ubuntu. There are also precompiled packages for
@@ -81 +83 @@
 
 Many of Tahoe's build dependencies can be satisfied by first installing
-certain debian packages: simplejson is one of these. Some debian/ubuntu
-platforms do not provide the necessary .egg-info metadata with their
-packages, so the Tahoe build process may not believe they are present. Some
-Tahoe dependencies are not present in most debian systems (such as foolscap
-and zfec): debs for these are made available in the APT repository described
-above.
-
-The Tahoe build process will acquire (via setuptools) most of the libraries
-that it needs to run and which are not already present in the build
-environment).
+certain debian packages, and the Tahoe build process will download and build
+many of the others. Please see source:docs/debian.txt for details about
+building Tahoe on a debian-based system.
 
 == Building a Debian Package ==
@@ -96 +91 @@
 Please see source:docs/debian.txt for details about building your own debian
 packages from a Tahoe source tree.
+
+Note that this is entirely optional. Tahoe will run just fine from a source
+tree: creating a debian package is merely a convenience for sysadmins to help
+them manage large numbers of Tahoe nodes with established tools like apt-get.