Re: First announcment

Hello, this is probably first message from us to this list after it's creation. That's not good, but hopefully this will change in near future. I always waited to some interesting thing to announce and found all changes till now not so much interesting ;) Actually we have interesting web pages http://fred.nic.cz full of useful information. I will try at least announce here new changes on these web pages such source update, documentation update etc. Right now with a release of new version 1.10 of our registration system I found one thing really cool to announce. This is completely rewritten build system of all components of FRED. It was never so easy to install FRED from sources. To support this installation I uploaded there little bash script fred-manager (http://fred.nic.cz/sources/fred-manager). Everyone should be able to install fred in this few steps: wget http://fred.nic.cz/sources/fred-manager chmod a+x fred-manager ./fred-manager download ./fred-manager install ./fred-manager start This will download and unpack sources, build all compoments in build subdirectory of your current directory and install all results into root subdirectory. Command start will run all necessary servers that include apache and postgres. They don't interfere at all with your system wide proceses of the same name. All is installed into your current directory, all is running under privileges of your current user. Servers will allocate about 10 ports to listen on. After that you can test client by running script at ./root/bin/fred-client. You can check zone generation by calling ./root/bin/genzone-client. You can check web applications by pointing your browser to localhost:22354. You can also just check this script instead, to find out how to install FRED. One thing will be probably a little bit painful - to satisfy all dependencies. Configuration script will fail when they find some missing dependency. Then you have to manually install it. We tried successfuly to install FRED on Fedora (8,9), Ubuntu (Dapper) and Gentoo. Except from omniORB all dependencies should be in distribution repositories. We created a overall schema of this dependencies http://fred.nic.cz/attachment/wiki/attachments/component_schema.png Hope that traffic on this lists will arise a little bit since now. Enjoy our work! ;) Jaromir