I'm looking a shell script or Perl based software installer. It should
be able to read a parameter file which specifies variables, with
default values and prompts, package files (zip or tar archives) to
install, and test scripts to run (e.g. to verify that a particular
prerequisite is installed). Having accepted and verified the variables,
it needs to take some skeleton config files (which will have been in
the package files) and substitute the variable values into them.
I'm not interested in anything graphical (I have found Tcl:Tk and Java
projects around) as the installer needs to be conveniently used
remotely and I've specified shell or Perl as I think it's reasonable to
expect to find those on any modern-ish Unix or Linux system.
I already have a working installer for a particular project but as I
want to do more, it's getting out of hand (because, as these things
often do, it grew organically) and it doesn't use parameter files at
all.
I hope I've made my needs clear enough, and I also hope that one of you
knowledgable know of something that exists to fill them.
Niall
P.S. I DID ask Uncle Google first, but the foo is not strong in me, and
I found nothing useful (quite a few Java based solutions, mind - no
thanks)
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