From 50c822076abee76c3133ffc3482488392eecedfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Wong Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 04:53:10 +0000 Subject: check git version requirements This allows v1 tests to continue working on git 1.8.0 for now. This allows git 2.1.4 packaged with Debian 8 ("jessie") to run old tests, at least. I suppose it's safe to drop Debian 7 ("wheezy") due to our dependency on git 1.8.0 for "merge-base --is-ancestor". Writing V2 repositories requires git 2.6 for "get-mark" support, so mask out tests for older gits. --- INSTALL | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'INSTALL') diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index ccd9dac9..a89c8907 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -5,6 +5,13 @@ This is for folks who want to setup their own public-inbox instance. Clients should use normal git-clone/git-fetch, or NNTP clients if they want to import mail into their personal inboxes. +public-inbox is developed on Debian GNU/Linux systems and will +never depend on packages outside of the "main" component of +the "stable" distribution, currently Debian 9.x ("stretch") + +Most packages are available in other GNU/Linux distributions; +and FreeBSD support can happen. + TODO: this still needs to be documented better, also see the scripts/ and sa_config/ directories in the source tree @@ -14,8 +21,8 @@ Requirements public-inbox requires a number of other packages to access its full functionality. The core tools are, of course: -* Git -* Perl +* Git (1.8.0+, 2.6+ for writing v2 repositories) +* Perl 5.8+ * SQLite (needed for Xapian use) To accept incoming mail into a public inbox, you'll likely want: -- cgit v1.2.3-24-ge0c7