[Gnumed-devel] Server dependencies for Mac OS X

[James Busser]

thread was
        Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed - on Mac OS X for real


Dave, even if you have postgres already installed, a machine's  
ability to run a GNUmed server will depend on the machine *also*  
having installed additional dependencies which, in the case of  
Debian, (*)buntu, SuSE and Mandriva are taken care-of by the  
net_install, whereas the installation of these additional  
dependencies on a Mac have not yet been scripted.

It is to the aforementioned net_install script that Karsten was  
referring when he wrote "we'd be happy to integrate... MacOSX"  
prompting Sebastian's counterpoint of whether the extra dependencies  
(plus Postgres) are best installed a "server Mac" by use of the gui  
packages.

Maybe for *limited* testing of the server (as opposed to a production  
environment) not all of the following Debian list are needed by Mac  
OS X?

	gnumed-common postgresql postgresql-client cron anacron tar hostname  
coreutils mailx openssl bzip2 gnupg mc rsync python-psycopg2

This full list is pointed-to by the "here" link at

        http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/ServerInstallUpgrade

at the end of the section "generic Linux and MacOSX: local install"



On 2-Jan-08, at 4:09 AM, Dave Cramer wrote:

> Oh, I mis-understood. I have postgres installed already so how can  
> I just install the database ?
>
> Dave
> On 1-Jan-08, at 8:43 AM, Sebastian Hilbert wrote:
>
> > On Dienstag 01 Januar 2008, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 05:11:31PM -0500, Dave Cramer wrote:
> > > > Forgive me for being naive, but where does one get the
> > > > bootstrap-latest.sh file ?
> > >
> > > We'd be happy to integrate into
> > >
> > > 	http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnumed/gnumed/server/ 
> > > bootstrap/net_inst
> > > all-gnumed_server.sh?root=gnumed&view=log
> > >
> > > any suggestions you might have regarding dependancy
> > > handling on MacOSX.
> >
> > This is a hot topic. I would not want to touch this. There are  
> > (too ?) many
> > options to do this cleanly. One can install PostgreSQL via a nice  
> > GUI. There
> > are options to do this more Unix-like through fink and  
> > darwinports. The later
> > two are pretty much software repositories.
> >
> > For a sever administrator which handles OSX servers they might be  
> > a good
> > option but for end users which will most likely not get the  
> > darwinports stuff
> > installed and use the gui installer version that might cause trouble.
> >
> > On MacOSX it is easy to loose track of where stuff gets installed  
> > because most
> > stuff doesn't get installed at all but rather dropped some place  
> > in a virtual
> > disk image.
> >
> > I installed everything via the gui packages (postgresql, psycopg2)  
> > and it
> > works just fine.