[ixpmanager] Diff (just for reference) of site-specific tweaks for compare-prefix tool

Nick Hilliard nick at inex.ie
Fri May 29 14:42:42 IST 2015


On 29/05/2015 09:59, Rowan Thorpe wrote:
> BTW: When setting up the ixpmanager perl-lib on the route-server I noticed that
> although the docs mention (and tools/runtime/check-perl-dependencies.pl checks
> for) the perl dbd-mysql lib, the Makefile.PL doesn't. Because I hadn't done the
> full ixpmanager setup (obviously) on the route-server, and because I wasn't
> even looking at that part of the install-docs, I only discovered the broken dep
> when trying to run the prefix-tool, and then manually installed
> libdbd-mysql-perl (apt's name for it) to resolve it. I didn't notice it on our
> test-RS because I'd already installed mysql-client there (which depends on
> libdbd-mysql-perl). Maybe it is worth adding a comment about it to the
> route-server prefix analysis wiki-page? or not worth it?

our recommendation is to run check-perl-dependencies.pl on all systems
which use any bit of the ixpmanager perl-lib.  Yes, we need to make this
clearer in the documentation.

Nick



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