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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2005-08-08 17:32:25 +0000
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2005-08-08 17:32:25 +0000
commit9ad2a95c80ab0f9cf48d3f58e9a7ed6f06685c34 (patch)
tree2db6a9e1969ca9e9cb916759c0c7e8f15cf8dbdc /docs
parent0556d428a56bdc4dac52d6eed2c515e66958094e (diff)
* documentation update
* embed CSS data in xmltoman.xsl git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/avahi/trunk@274 941a03a8-eaeb-0310-b9a0-b1bbd8fe43fe
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-rw-r--r--docs/INSTALL52
-rw-r--r--docs/README53
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diff --git a/docs/AUTHORS b/docs/AUTHORS
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f1428cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/AUTHORS
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Lennart Poettering
+Trent Lloyd
+Sebastien Estienne
+
+$Id$
diff --git a/docs/INSTALL b/docs/INSTALL
index d6b134e..d7b3974 100644
--- a/docs/INSTALL
+++ b/docs/INSTALL
@@ -1,36 +1,46 @@
-*** Quick install instructions (tested on debian/ubuntu only!) ***
+*** Quick install instructions (tested on Debian/Ubuntu only!) ***
-While "make" and "boostrap.sh" may be run as normal users all other commands
-need to be run is root.
+While "configure" and "make" may be run as normal user all other commands
+need to be run as root.
-$ ./bootstrap.sh
- (this will run autoconf/automake)
+Configure the build system:
+ $ ./configure --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
-$ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
+Some configure options available:
-Extra configure options available:
-
- --enable-gtk use GTK+ (default=yes)
- --enable-dbus use DBus (default=yes)
+ --disable-gtk disable GTK+ tools (default: enabled)
+ --disable-dbus disable DBUS support (default: enabled)
+ --disable-python disable building python modules (default: enabled)
--with-dbus-sys=<dir> where D-BUS system.d directory is
--with-distro=<distro> the target Linux distribution (one of redhat,
suse, gentoo, debian or slackware)
--with-avahi-user=<user> User for running the Avahi daemon (avahi)
--with-avahi-group=<grp> Group for Avahi (avahi)
-$ make
-# make install
+ Please note that by disabling DBUS you lose the ability to publish and browse
+ services from local applications.
+
+ Please note that only the Debian init script is currently up-to-date.
+ YMMV on other distributions. Patches welcome!
+
+ $ make
+ # make install
+
+Add a user an a group for avahi. (Debian specific)
+ # addgroup --system avahi
+ # adduser --system --no-create-home --ingroup avahi avahi
+
+Ask DBUS to re-read its policies:
+ # kill -HUP `cat /var/run/dbus/pid`
-# addgroup --system avahi
-# adduser --system --no-create-home --ingroup avahi avahi
- (These commands are Debian specific and may be different on other
- distributions)
+Now start the Avahi daemon:
+ # /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon start
-# kill -HUP `cat /var/run/dbus/pid`
- (This will ask DBUS to re-read its policies)
-# /etc/dbus-1/event.d/75avahi-daemon start
+Optionally start the unicast DNS configuration daemon:
+ # /etc/init.d/avahi-dnsconfd start
-- To automatically start avahi-dnsconfd on Debian based distro:
-# update-rc.d avahi-dnsconfd defaults 25 15
+To start the two daemons on Debian based distributions automatically:
+ # update-rc.d avahi-daemon defaults 25 15
+ # update-rc.d avahi-dnsconfd defaults 26 14
$Id$
diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README
index dfaf409..37aaf2c 100644
--- a/docs/README
+++ b/docs/README
@@ -1,11 +1,46 @@
-* Quick start guide:
-0) make sure you read the INSTALL file.
-1) start the deamon in background as root: avahi-daemon -D
-Or (You shouldn't start avahi-daemon and avahi-discover at the same time.)
-1) start the Gui to browse zeroconf network as your user: avahi-discover
+Avahi is a free, LGPL mDNS/DNS-SD implementation.
+Copyright 2004, 2005 by the Avahi developers.
-* Basic instructions to control the avahi deamon (as root):
-- starting it: avahi-daemon
-- starting it in background: avahi-daemon -D
-- stopping it: avahi-daemon -k
+ http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
+
+Avahi has a mailing list:
+
+ http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/avahi
+
+You have a chance to meet the developers on
+
+ #avahi on irc.freenode.org
+
+Please report bugs to the freedesktop.org bugzilla:
+
+ http://bugs.freedesktop.org/
+
+Avahi's SVN repository is freely accessible:
+
+ svn checkout svn://svn.0pointer.de/flexmdns/trunk avahi
+
+ http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=flexmdns
+
+Avahi has the following requirements:
+ - glib2
+ - expat
+ - libdaemon (http://0pointer.de/lennart/projects/libdaemon/)
+ - Linux 2.4 or 2.6
+ - DBUS 0.3x (optional, if you disable this, the daemon is not
+ accessible over IPC to other applications!)
+ - gtk2 + glade (optional, needed for avahi-discover-standalone)
+ - doxygen (optional, needed for he API documentaton)
+ - Python 2.4, pygtk2 (optional, needed by all client tools)
+ - python-twisted (optional, needed by avahi-bookmarks)
+
+Please make sure to read the currently available documentation for avahi before
+asking for support on the mailing list:
+
+ - INSTALL
+ - Man pages
+ - Homepage http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/Avahi
+ - Mailing list archive http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/avahi/
+
+
+$Id$