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diff --git a/doc/setup/byhand/discussion.mdwn b/doc/setup/byhand/discussion.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..941976789 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/setup/byhand/discussion.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +What directory is the 'working copy'? There can be two interpretations: the current dir and the .git dir. + +> It is fairly common terminology amoung all version control systems to use +> "working copy" to refer to a checkout from version control, including +> copies of all the versioned files, and whatever VCS-specific cruft that +> entails. So, a working copy is everything you get when you `git clone` +> a repository. --[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn b/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn index b71263dae..74f7740db 100644 --- a/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/setup/discussion.mdwn @@ -245,3 +245,16 @@ Thank you! I'm not a Perl programmer, so what's your opinion: is this behavior a I am experiencing the same problem "/etc/ikiwiki/custom: failed to set up the repository with ikiwiki-makerepo " on Debian squeeze with perl5.10.0. Upgrading to ikiwiki 3.10 fixes it. -- [Albert](http://www.docunext.com/) + +---- + +Just a note, perl 5.10 isn't packaged as part of RHEL or thus CentOS nor EPEL, +so it's not especially trivial to satisfy that requirement for ikiwiki on +those platforms, without backporting it from Fedora or building from source. +However, I have an ikiwiki 3.20100403 running on RHEL-4 supplied 5.8.8 without +(seemingly too much) complaint. How strong is the 5.10 requirement? what +precicely breaks without it? -- [[Jon]] + +> I don't remember what was the specific problem with perl 5.8.8. All I can +> find is some taint checking bugs, which are currently worked around by +> taint checking being disabled. --[[Joey]] |