[rt-users] I've asked the beginner perl group but noone responded

[Steven E. Ames]

> On Apr 16, 2008, at 9:57 AM, Mike Peachey wrote:
> > I disagree. Distribution packaging systems cause a LOT of RT  
> > problems. Manual installation or platform-independent packaging is a  
> > much better way of managing RT and using CPAN to perform perl  
> > installations is by far the best automatable method.
>
> Must be crappy packages.  The freebsd packages work wonderfully across  
> upgrades.

The FreeBSD port maintainer does do a rather nice job. *wink*

Really, If you look at the freebsd port it's pretty much a model of how to install RT (IMHO):

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/rt36/

Take a peak at the Makefile. Nothing too tricky going on there.