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Always install Developer Tools on MacOSX Server
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Quick note to self: When installing MacOSX Server, always always follow up by installing the Developer Tools. Things like make and other goodies come with the Developer Tools, and will make life simpler. For bonus points, install Fink as well, so you can easily install all kinds of funky utilities and apps over an SSH connection.
Alan’s almost got his server up. It’s basically running now, on an external firewire drive. He just needs to finish tweaking that installation, and move it onto the internal drive module.
He did just tell me about a handy trick that I didn’t know about. In Server Admin, each service can export its configuration settings, so you can then just drag the config into place on a new server. Holy crap. That’s easy and powerful. Will save a LOT of time setting up a new box. That, folks, is why MacOSX rocks. Things like this that Just Work™ and make life simpler. I just wish I’d have known about that earlier (I guess it would have helped if I ever RTFM).
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Fink is mentioned as a way to get a lot of great open source software. Don’t
forget that there is also DarwinPorts (http://darwinports.opendarwin.org/).
They have over 2000 ports now. It’s a very slick system and one of the reasons I like it is that the main person behind it is Jordan Hubbard who
manages the Darwin kernel and utilities of MacOS X at Apple.
I’d used darwinports before, when it first came out. It was rather empty (not anymore - over 2000 packages!)
I just installed darwinports. If it’s going to replace Fink for a lot of users, there should be a better way than checking source out of CVS, and running the old configure -> make -> make install gauntlet (although it is painless). The whole point of these package managers is to make the apps and utilities available to people without having to do that.
Now, to play with some of the packages… Thanks for reminding me about darwinports!