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1.2     ! veillard    1:   INSTALLING rpm2html
        !             2:   ===================
1.1       veillard    3: 
                      4: Should hopefully be as simple as:
                      5: 
                      6:     ./configure
                      7:     make
                      8:     su
                      9:     make install
                     10:     
1.2     ! veillard   11: edit /usr/local/share/rpm2html.config (see below)
        !            12: and create the directory to hold the HTML output.
1.1       veillard   13: 
                     14:     make test
                     15: 
                     16: To verify that the configuration is Ok,
                     17: And you are ready to install it in your crontab
                     18:   
                     19: NOTE : 
1.2     ! veillard   20: ======
        !            21: 
1.1       veillard   22: - autoconf take /usr/local as the standard prefix,
                     23:   it is possible to override the installation to some
                     24:   place elsewhere.
                     25: - while in use, rpm2html need only 2 files in the
                     26:   system : the binary and the config(s) file passed as
                     27:   argument(s).
                     28: - No special permission are needed it just need write
                     29:   access to the output directory and be able to read
                     30:   the RPM directories and files.
                     31: 
1.2     ! veillard   32: The CONFIGURATION FILE:
        !            33: =======================
        !            34: 
        !            35:   Is a text file, lines beginning with semicolumns
        !            36: are comments. The first part is a global section
        !            37: defining some important parameters of rpm2html.
        !            38: Parameters are defined with the syntax:
        !            39: 
        !            40: variable=value
        !            41: 
        !            42: Values shouln't be quoted and end up with the end of line
        !            43: 
        !            44: Variable   |   Value
        !            45: ---------------------------------------------------
        !            46: url        | The URL for rpm2html (http://rufus.w3.org/linux/rpm2html/)
        !            47: maint      | The maintainer of the local mirror
        !            48: mail       | The E-mail of the maintainer
        !            49: dir        | The directory for for the HTML output
        !            50: 
        !            51:   After these four required variables, one section
        !            52: should be filled for each directory on your system
        !            53: containing RPM files. it starts with the directory
        !            54: filename between brackets:
        !            55: 
        !            56: [The name between brackets is the directory, NEEDED !]
        !            57: 
        !            58:   All the variables defined below until the next
        !            59: directory or the end of file pertain to this directory.
        !            60: Here are the possible variables:
        !            61: 
        !            62: Variable   |   Value
        !            63: ---------------------------------------------------
        !            64: name       | A significant name for this mirror, NEEDED !
        !            65: ftp        | The original FTP/HTTP url, NEEDED !
        !            66: ftpsrc     | Where the associated sources are stored
        !            67: color      | Background color for pages
        !            68: trust      | Unused yet
        !            69: url        | The local FTP/HTTP url, NEEDED !
        !            70: 
        !            71:   It is possible to indicate other mirrors by adding
        !            72: more url=value lines withing the section. The fist one
        !            73: will be considered the local one.
        !            74: 
        !            75:   
1.1       veillard   76:  Daniel.Veillard@w3.org
                     77: 
1.2     ! veillard   78: $Id: INSTALL,v 1.1 1997/11/14 04:58:34 veillard Exp $