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Nico Schottelius 8ab91009e1 Cleanup of install, update and general documentation
Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <nico@brief.schottelius.org>
2012-11-15 12:00:25 +01:00

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## Requirements
### Source Host
This is the machine you use to configure the target hosts.
* /bin/sh: A posix like shell (for instance bash, dash, zsh)
* Python (>= 3.2 required)
* SSH client
* Asciidoc (for building the manpages)
### Target Hosts
* /bin/sh: A posix like shell (for instance bash, dash, zsh)
* SSH server
## Python Installation
Ensure you have Python 3.2 installed on the machine you use to **deploy to the targets**
(the ***source host***).
### Archlinux
Archlinux includes a recent python in the extra repository.
You can install it using
pacman -S python
### CentOS
See the "From source" section
#### Debian
For Debian **wheezy** or newer:
aptitude install python3
On **squeeze** you can add following line in **/etc/apt/sources.list**
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy main
And add pinning entry in **/etc/apt/preferences.d/wheezy**:
Package: *
Pin: release n=wheezy
Pin-Priority: 1
Please be aware that both **openssh-server** and **openssh-client** might be
removed on **python3.2** installation. You surely want to reinstall them:
apt-get install -t wheezy openssh-server openssh-client
For older Debian versions, installing python 3.2 from source is required.
### Fedora
Fedora 15 and newer includes a recent python.
You can install it using
yum install python3
### FreeBSD
For the port:
cd /usr/ports/lang/python32/ && make install clean
For the package:
pkg_add -r python32
You can also use any newer version, but at least python 3.2 is required.
### Gentoo
Gentoo only provides python 3.2 in testing packages (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3&chap=3).
If you want to ensure nothing breaks you must set back the python version to what was default before.
emerge -av =python-3.2.2 --autounmask-write
emerge -av =python-3.2.2
eselect python list
eselect python list set python3.2
### Max OS X
You can choose between Homebrew and Macports, either way works:
[Homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/) variant:
brew install python3
[Macports](http://www.macports.org/install.php) variant:
port install python32
ln -s /opt/local/bin/python3.2 /opt/local/bin/python3
### From Source
For those operating systems not yet support Python 3.2:
pyversion=3.2.3
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/$pyversion/Python-${pyversion}.tar.bz2
tar xvfj Python-${pyversion}.tar.bz2
cd Python-${pyversion}
./configure
make
sudo make install
This installs python 3.2 to /usr/local/bin. Ensure this directory is in
your PATH environment variable.
## Install cdist
You can clone cdist from git, which gives you the advantage of having
a version control in place for development of your own stuff as well.
To install cdist, execute the following commands:
git clone git://git.schottelius.org/cdist
cd cdist
export PATH=$PATH:$(pwd -P)/bin
# If you want the manpages
./build man
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$(pwd -P)/doc/man
### Available versions
There are at least the following branches available:
* Development: master
* 2.0: Current stable branch
* 2.1: Currently experimental - the next stable branch
Old versions:
* 1.7: Bugfixes, cleanups, new type and explorer rename
* 1.6: New types, cleaned up \_\_package* types, internal cleanup
* 1.5: Focus on object orientation instead of global stage orientation
* 1.4: Support for redefiniton of objects (if equal)
* 1.3: Support for local and remote code execution (current stable)
* 1.2: Dependencies supported
* 1.1: \_\_file to \_\_file, \_\_directory, \_\_link migration
* 1.0: First official release
Other branches may be available for features or bugfixes, but they
may vanish at any point. To select a specific branch use
# Generic code
git checkout -b <name> origin/<name>
# Stay on a specific version
version=2.0
git checkout -b $version origin/$version
### Mirrors
* git://github.com/telmich/cdist.git ([github](https://github.com/telmich/cdist))
* git://git.code.sf.net/p/cdist/code ([sourceforge](https://sourceforge.net/p/cdist/code))
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