[Opendnssec-develop] Feedback on newbie install.

[Antoin Verschuren]

Don't know about the configuration, but one of the things I noticed on the excellent install page is that developers assume that subversion is already installed on a base system, which it isn't, at least not on LTS Ubuntu 8.04.

Install "subversion" should be mentioned as a pre-requisite.

"autoconf", "libtool" and "uuid-dev" are also not installed on a base system.


Antoin Verschuren

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendnssec-develop-bounces at lists.opendnssec.org [mailto:opendnssec-
> develop-bounces at lists.opendnssec.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Stanton
> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 11:54 AM
> To: Opendnssec-develop at lists.opendnssec.org
> Subject: [Opendnssec-develop] Feedback on newbie install.
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> I know that there is still no official release yet but I thought that I
> would give some feedback based on an install on a fresh install of Debian
> (squeeze/sid):
> 
> It eventually went OK  (had problems with using SVN to get latest version
> of ldns, fine if using XP failed on Debian),  The guide at
> http://trac.opendnssec.org/wiki/Signer/Install was excellent and thumbs up
> to whoever produced it.
> 
> The main issue that I had was the errors reported with the “make autogen
> build”  step.  It failed complaining that it could not find the “m4”
> directory.  I solved this by running the following command at the base of
> the working copy:
> 
> cd softHSM; ln -s ../m4 m4; cd ..
> 
> cd libhsm; ln -s ../m4 m4; cd ..
> 
> cd libksm; ln -s ../m4 m4; cd ..
> 
> cd enforcer; ln -s ../m4 m4; cd ..
> 
> cd signer; ln -s ../m4 m4;cd ..
> 
> 
> 
> After this was done all compiled fine.
> 
> 
> 
> Is there another guide on configuring the signer engine?
> 
> I have initialised the softHSM.  The zonefile.xml.sample refers to a
> SignerConfiguration file at /var/opendnssec/signconf/example.com.xml which
> does not exist.  Any idea where I can find this file?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for all your work on the project.
> 
> 
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
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