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diff --git a/doc/install.xml b/doc/install.xml index 3f397ccb8..13cf2847f 100644 --- a/doc/install.xml +++ b/doc/install.xml @@ -5,13 +5,17 @@ <title>Pre-requisites</title> <para> Bcfg2 is written in python using several modules not included - with most distributions. SSSlib, available from - ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/sss/, provides communication - abstraction. Element Tree, available from http://www.effbot.org - provides convenient XML handling. Bcfg2 uses FAM (server-size) - to coherently cache repository files and update them when they - change. + with most distributions. Element Tree, available from + http://www.effbot.org provides convenient XML handling. </para> + + <para> + The Bcfg2 server requires a few more packages. It uses either + FAM or Gamin to coherently cache repository files + and update them when they change. It also requires m2crypto to + use SSL functions. + </para> + <para>ElementTree can be downloaded from http://www.effbot.org/downloads. It can be installed by running the setup script against the python installation. @@ -37,9 +41,13 @@ copying elementtree/__init__.py -> build/lib/elementtree $ python setup.py install ... </programlisting> - <para>SSSlib can be downloaded from - ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/sss. It can either be built from source - or prebuilt packages can be downloaded from the same location. + + <para> + The python fam binding can be downloaded from + python-fam.sourceforge.net. FAM (on several linux distributions) + has been depricated in favor of gamin. The Bcfg server will + autodetect which modules are available, and use appropriate file + caching logic. </para> </sect1> <sect1> |