X-Git-Url: http://www.git.stargrave.org/?p=public-inbox.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=3a2f840caf9e55dc9aeb2161894801c3782f46c0;hp=03b356accdebc2e5835820601e588a112df17d9a;hb=4ba430497bfb4763691b0ad8af573eb6ff420b96;hpb=975a1b174d40fd957ed869e9ff68f3c6dd6f37df

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 03b356ac..3a2f840c 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -19,54 +19,46 @@ standard MakeMaker installation (Perl)
 	make test
 	make install # root permissions may be needed
 
-Requirements (server MDA)
--------------------------
+Requirements
+------------
 
 * git
-* SpamAssassin (spamc/spamd)
-* MTA - postfix is recommended
 * Perl and several modules:    (Debian package name)
   - Date::Parse                libtimedate-perl
   - Email::MIME                libemail-mime-perl
   - Email::MIME::ContentType   libemail-mime-contenttype-perl
   - Encode::MIME::Header       perl
-  - IPC::Run                   libipc-run-perl
 
-Optional modules:
+Optional components:
+
+* MTA - postfix is recommended (for public-inbox-mda)
+* SpamAssassin (spamc/spamd)   (for public-inbox-watch/public-inbox-mda)
+
+Optional Perl modules:
 
   - Plack[1]                   libplack-perl
-  - Mail::Thread (2.5+)[1]     libmail-thread-perl
   - URI::Escape[1]             liburi-perl
-  - Search::Xapian[3]          libsearch-xapian-perl
-  - IO::Compress::Gzip[3]      libio-compress-perl
+  - Search::Xapian[2][3]       libsearch-xapian-perl
+  - IO::Compress::Gzip[3]      perl-modules (or libio-compress-perl)
   - DBI[3]                     libdbi-perl
-  - DBD::SQLite[3]             libdbd-sqlite3-perl
+  - DBD::SQLite[2][3]          libdbd-sqlite3-perl
   - Danga::Socket[4]           libdanga-socket-perl
-  - Net::Server[4]             libnet-server-perl
+  - Net::Server[5]             libnet-server-perl
+  - Filesys::Notify::Simple[6] libfilesys-notify-simple-perl
 
-[1] - Only required for serving/generating Atom and HTML pages.
-[3] - Optional for HTML web interface and HTTP/NNTP servers
-[4] - Optional for HTTP and NNTP servers
+[1] - Optional, needed for serving/generating Atom and HTML pages
+[2] - Optional, only required for NNTP server
+[3] - Optional, needed for gzipped mbox support over HTTP
+[4] - Optional, needed for bundled HTTP and NNTP servers
+[5] - Optional, needed for standalone daemonization of HTTP+NNTP servers
+[6] - Optional, needed for public-inbox-watch Maildir watcher
 
 When installing Search::Xapian, make sure the underlying Xapian
-is patched against the index corruption bug documented in:
+installation is not affected by an index corruption bug:
 
 	https://bugs.debian.org/808610
 
-For Debian 8.0, this means installing from jessie-backports
-until the fix lands in jessie.
-
-# Ensure the following line is in your apt sources.list(5)
-# (typically /etc/apt/sources.list):
-
-deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main
-
-Then run:
-
-	apt-get update
-	apt-get install -t jessie-backports libxapian22
-
-to install the package.
+For Debian 8.x (jessie), this means using Debian 8.5 or later.
 
 public-inbox will never store unregeneratable data in Xapian
 or any other search database we might use; Xapian corruption