From b322e6009008e28b2bd86337d363c44f39397226 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Narayan Desai <desai@mcs.anl.gov>
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:20:11 +0000
Subject: minor install doc update

(Logical change 1.348)


git-svn-id: https://svn.mcs.anl.gov/repos/bcfg/trunk/bcfg2@1441 ce84e21b-d406-0410-9b95-82705330c041
---
 doc/install.xml | 26 +++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

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>
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