summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorRuss Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>2007-12-01 03:20:17 +0000
committerRuss Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>2007-12-01 03:20:17 +0000
commit4866eb095afa8e7aa680f56d237e9a49313e2e19 (patch)
tree35ae2dd16c6742a3821039d0a2abbb948d9c9656 /README
parent6abc78097e384d66ecf249b9c638b75eeb3ccc8f (diff)
Update for MySQL support.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
-rw-r--r--README17
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index d7a045c..78b4caf 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ REQUIREMENTS
The wallet server is written in Perl and requires Perl 5.6.0 or later.
It uses the Perl DBI layer to talk to a database, and therefore the DBI
module and a DBD module for the database it will use must be installed.
- Currently, the server has only been tested against SQLite 3 and will
- probably not work fully with other database backends. It will be ported
- to and tested with MySQL for a later release.
+ Currently, the server has only been tested against SQLite 3 and MySQL 5
+ and will probably not work fully with other database backends. Porting
+ is welcome.
The wallet server is intended to be run under remctld and use remctld to
do authentication. It can be ported to any other front-end, but doing
@@ -109,11 +109,12 @@ REQUIREMENTS
To support synchronization with an AFS kaserver, the server must have
the Authen::Krb5 Perl module installed.
- To run the test suite, you must have the Perl modules Test::More, DBI,
- and DBD::SQLite installed. Test::More comes with Perl 5.8 or later.
- The other modules are available from CPAN and may be available as part
- of your OS (many Linux distributions have them as packages, for
- example).
+ To run the test suite, you must have the Perl modules Test::More and DBI
+ installed. You will also need a DBD module installed for the database
+ backend you want to use (currently, either DBD::SQLite or DBD::mysql).
+ Test::More comes with Perl 5.8 or later. The other modules are
+ available from CPAN and may be available as part of your OS (many Linux
+ distributions have them as packages, for example).
To run the full test suite, additionally all of the above software
requirements must be met. Tests requiring some bit of software that's