[rt-users] RT on gentoo

[Dan Simoes]

Thanks for your reply.  I'm using apache2, but that's not even an issue yet.
I really want to do as much as I can via portage, and avoid CPAN.
I'm down to only 4 or so missing ebuilds.

gentoo is becoming quite popular these days and I think it would be a 
good addition to the FAQ.

Patrick Hurley wrote:

>>I'm having a hard time getting RT to install on a gentoo system.  If
>>anyone has any guidance, please let me know.  I know there is no
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>>(portage) for gentoo except for a half-baked one from July or so.  I
>>used RT a few years back and don't recall it being this hard to get
>>going, but I'm looking forward to using it again.  Thanks.
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>I just completed an install of RT 3.0.9 w/ MySQL on gentoo, but I
>haven't done too much testing to make sure it functions properly -- I
>know I can login, and that's about it.
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>But I just followed the RT install guidelines, and they seemed to work.
>The few difficulties I ran into:
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>1) Statically compiling apache 1.3 w/ mod_perl.  Lots o' discussions on
>gentoo forums about doing this, and apparently it's not really possible
>to do this through in ebuild.  I went ahead and just emerged apache 1.3
>with mod_perl as a DSO, just purely out of curiosity in seeing what
>would happen.  
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>2) Perl modules, of course.  Same kind of problems I had with Red Hat.
>I didn't really use ebuilds for the perl modules, as they are not really
>up to date.  So I manually CPAN'd all of them.  A couple I had to
>manually compile and install.  If I remember correctly, there was in
>issue with the mod_perl tests with Apache::Test and/or libapreq -- the
>tests kept failing, I installed anyway, and all seems fine.
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>I think that's about it.
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>ph.
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