X-Git-Url: https://git.sommitrealweird.co.uk/onak.git/blobdiff_plain/f86410ff8aa00dc5c584541f387f77515a8cbd89..453292887030769d9c7599690fbc5e7c62f5df39:/README diff --git a/README b/README index 5be8397..d70059f 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -onak 0.1.1 -Copyright 2002 Project Purple. Written by Jonathan McDowell +onak 0.3.0 +Copyright 2003-2004 Project Purple. Written by Jonathan McDowell http://www.earth.li/projectpurple/progs/onak.html @@ -18,12 +18,13 @@ replacement for pksd, which I was running (and still am). Installation: onak has been mainly developed under Linux with a bit of work on FreeBSD -at times also. It's i386 specific at present thanks to the bit of -assembly in bithelp.h. Feel free to submit a patch for your arch. :) +at times also. It should run on all architectures, but has only been +tested on i386 and PowerPC so far. -Typing "make" should produce a version of onak with support for the DB3 -backend. If you want to choose a different backend (see below for a -discussion about the options) you'll need to edit the Makefile first. +Typing "./configure && make" should produce a version of onak with +support for the DB4 backend. If you want to choose a different backend +(see below for a discussion about the options) you'll need to pass the +appropriate option to ./configure. Once make has completed you'll end up with various binaries: @@ -79,12 +80,18 @@ Currently there is support for 4 different database backends: keyid - no key updating or searching by key test. Found to be tempramental and prone to deadlock in the db2 library. -* db3 (Berkeley libdb3) +* db4 (Berkeley libdb4) The currently preferred backend. Supports the full range of functions like the pg backend but is considerably faster. Also easier to setup - assuming you have libdb3 installed; there's no need to have an SQL + assuming you have libdb4 installed; there's no need to have an SQL database running and configured. +* fs (file backend) + A fuller featured file based backend. Doesn't need any external + libraries and supports the full range of operations (such as text and + subkey searching). Needs a good filesystem to get good performance + though as it creates many, many files and links. + Other keyservers: