Clients should use normal git-clone/git-fetch, IMAP or NNTP clients
if they want to import mail into their personal inboxes.
Clients should use normal git-clone/git-fetch, IMAP or NNTP clients
if they want to import mail into their personal inboxes.
+As of 2021, public-inbox is packaged by several OS distributions,
+listed in alphabetical order: Debian, GNU Guix, NixOS, and Void Linux.
+
public-inbox is developed on Debian GNU/Linux systems and will
never depend on packages outside of the "main" component of
the "stable" distribution, currently Debian 10.x ("buster"),
but older versions of Debian remain supported.
Most packages are available in other GNU/Linux distributions
public-inbox is developed on Debian GNU/Linux systems and will
never depend on packages outside of the "main" component of
the "stable" distribution, currently Debian 10.x ("buster"),
but older versions of Debian remain supported.
Most packages are available in other GNU/Linux distributions
TODO: this still needs to be documented better,
also see the scripts/ and sa_config/ directories in the source tree
TODO: this still needs to be documented better,
also see the scripts/ and sa_config/ directories in the source tree
-When installing Search::Xapian, make sure the underlying Xapian
-installation is not affected by an index corruption bug:
+symlink-install (public-inbox.git and 1.7.0+)
+---------------------------------------------
- https://bugs.debian.org/808610
+For users who lack permissions and/or wish to minimize their
+installation footprint, the "symlink-install" target is available in
+public-inbox.git. The following installs symlinks to $HOME/bin
+pointing to the source tree:
+
+ perl Makefile.PL
+ make symlink-install prefix=$HOME
-For Debian 8.x (jessie), this means using Debian 8.5 or later.
+Other installation notes
+------------------------
+
+Debian 8.x (jessie) users, use Debian 8.5 or later if using Xapian:
+ https://bugs.debian.org/808610
-public-inbox will never store unregeneratable data in Xapian
-or any other search database we might use; Xapian corruption
-will not destroy critical data.
+public-inbox-* commands will never store unregeneratable data in
+Xapian nor any other search database we might use; Xapian
+corruption will not destroy critical data. Note: `lei' DOES store
+unregeneratable data in Xapian and SQLite.