[mb-devel] MB Server running on Gentoo

[Rod Begbie]

Just thought I'd send a note to the list as future Google-fodder that
I successfully got the MusicBrainz Server + Database running on a
Linux box here running the Gentoo distribution.

A handful of important details:

1)  Gentoo defaults to installing Apache 2.  I had to add the
following to my /etc/portage/package.mask to stop it from doing that:

>=net-www/apache-2.0
>=www-apache/mod_perl-1.99
>=dev-perl/DBD-Pg-1.40

2)  g-cpan (which builds Gentoo ebuild files for CPAN modules) is a
godsend.  Type "g-cpan -i Net::Amazon" will cause it to download and
install all necessary modules, and store the appropriate metadata so
you can use emerge to remove/upgrade it.

3)  UUID doesn't exist in the main CPAN metadata.  I had to download
it directly from
http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/B/BR/BRAAM/UUID-0.02.tar.gz and
build it by hand.

Rod.

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