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NAME

installto - Install an 'installer' configuration file

VERSION

version 0.904

SYNOPSIS

# Will use installer file in current directory
installto ~/myprojectenv

# Using a specific installer file
installto -f /other/installer_file ~/myprojectenv

# The .installer file can also be fetched by URL:
installto -u http://stardestroyer.de/postgis.installer ~/myprojectenv

# Giving installer code as string
installto -e "perl '5.18.1'; cpanm 'Plack';" ~/myprojectenv

# On shell do the following for using the environment after installation
. ~/myprojectenv/export.sh

Sample .installer file might look like

perl "5.18.1";
url "http://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v9.2.4/postgresql-9.2.4.tar.gz", with => {
  pgport => 15432,
};
url "http://download.osgeo.org/gdal/1.10.1/gdal-1.10.1.tar.gz";
url "http://download.osgeo.org/geos/geos-3.4.2.tar.bz2";
url "http://download.osgeo.org/postgis/source/postgis-2.1.0.tar.gz";
cpanm "DBD::Pg";

DESCRIPTION

TOTALLY BETA, PLEASE TEST :D

This software is made for taking away the annoying task of installing a common specific bundle of requirements to a target directory. In the target directory installto will generate a export.sh which can be used to get all the environment loaded to use the installed programs.

Bigger example for installer file options:

url "http://host/file.tar.gz",
  with => {
    key => "value",
    other_key => undef,
  },
  enable => [qw( satan )],
  disable => [qw( god )],
  without => [qw( religion )],
  testable => 1;

Would endup with the following parameter on ./configure: --with-key=value --with-other_key --enable-satan --disable-god --without-religion.

You can give HashRef or ArrayRef at enable, disable, with and without to achieve whatever configure setup you need.

Also it would run "make test" if there is a Makefile after configuration. Another options possible (so far):

url "http://host/file.tar.gz",
  custom_test => sub {
    $_[0]->run($_[0]->unpack_path,'testcommand','--args')
  },
  custom_configure => sub {
    $self->run($self->unpack_path,'./Configure','-des','-Dprefix='.$self->target_directory);
  },
  post_install => sub {
    $self->run(undef,'command'); # run in target directory after install
  },
  export_sh => sub {
    return "# extra lines", "# for getting added to", "# export.sh";
  };

Same options can go towards a local file:

file "/some/local/file.tar.gz";

You can also run a custom command (it will be run inside the target directory):

run "custom_command", "args", "args";

Install specific perl (so far no options):

perl "5.8.8";

Install specific postgresql (with all required step to have it all setup):

postgres "9.3.0", port => 15432, superuser_with_db => 'myapp';

Or install packages via cpanm:

cpanm qw( Yeb Dist::Zilla );

Be careful! It doesn't care if you have installed a perl in the target directory or not, and just fire up cpanm, so it would install on your local perl installation, if you didn't installed perl before.

Or install packages via pip:

pip qw( rtree imposm );

Be careful! It doesn't care if you have installed pip in the target directory or not, and just fire up pip, so it would install on your local python environment, if you didn't installed pip before.

DEBUGGING

installto normally prints out the logfile of the output of the last procedure that fails. This allows easy fixing of those problems. You can then, after tuning the situation, restart the script and it retries the last comment (this might still a bit buggy, be warned).

In the case of a download problem or any other big problem that requires you to restart the specific step (like when you changed the URL to get a different version), you might want to delete fitting .json file in the installer directory, created in your target directory, this will force installto to redownload the file and restart this step complete over.

WARNING

The generation of the export.sh still has some problem, you might need to adapt it by hand (for now).

SUPPORT

IRC

Join #cindustries on irc.quakenet.org. Highlight Getty for fast reaction :).

Repository

http://github.com/Getty/p5-installer
Pull request and additional contributors are welcome

Issue Tracker

http://github.com/Getty/p5-installer/issues

AUTHOR

Torsten Raudssus <torsten@raudss.us>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Torsten Raudssus.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.