Best way to make an installer

[Jonathan Rockway]

Philip Skinner <philip at onlinegalleries.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> This is my first time asking for help on here, so bare with me please.
>
> I have an open source project I am working on and I need to make a
> proper installer for it. I have no idea where to start, at the moment I
> just release instructions on how to install, what perl modules to
> install and the best way to configure services being used (apache,
> mysql).
>
> I would like it to be as simple as "rpm -i package.rpm".
>

Take a look at PAR and Ingy's talk about symlinks and Kwiki:

  http://search.cpan.org/dist/PAR-Packer/lib/pp.pm

  http://svn.kwiki.org/kwiki/trunk/extras/talks/KwikiAndTheSymlink

Regards,
Jonathan Rockway