WHAT'S THIS ?

   SIn: Software Inventory

   It is planned to be an interface to building and installation of
   'tar.gz' source distribution of software, to maintain multiple
   versions and control product installation and activation, in a
   system (unix) and distribution (linux) independent way.

   It is also expected to provide a function to rebuild all the
   installed/configured software in a freshly installed system as
   they where in a previous life.

   It implements a shell script for managing files and commands and a
   php/xml interface for web access.

   Note that SIn has nothing magic in it enough to understand special
   installation requirements for some products such as (but not only)
   pre/post installation and configuration actions.

   This product is still at alpha level, and NOT released for any kind
   of use but development.


COPYING

   This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
   under certain conditions; see the file COPYING for details.

   This software is OSI Certified Open Source Software.
   OSI Certified is a certification mark of the Open Source Initiative.

   You may want to check http://www.franzoni.info/open for up to date
   version.


INSTALLATION

   Installation instructions are well documented in the installation
   and configuration manual yet to be written :-) [yes, just like the
   XFree86 configuration instructions].

   As far as this first alpha release, the tar.gz must be extracted
   (mkdir /where/you/want/this/under; cd /where/you/want/this/under;
   tar xzvf /where/you/downloaded/the/file.tar.gz).

   Then change working directory to the installation directory and,
   as superuser:
	cc -o sin sin.c
	chown root sin
        chmod 6775 sin

   You should also chgrp to the group the web server runs under.

   !!! ******************************************************* !!!
   !!! NOTE THE ABOVE COMMANDS OPEN A POTENTIAL SECURITY BREAK !!!
   !!! ******************************************************* !!!

   Unfortunately superuser access to the filesystem is required to
   manage files.  Indeed this seems to be some better the running the
   web server as root, and (as is) the sin program should only
   be able to run the sin.sh script.  However you should make sure
   the directory is protected from unauthorized access and/or close
   the access to the virtual server from localhost only !!!


CHANGES

   From V0.2 to V0.3 the sin_bridge program has been renamed to sin

   From V0.1 to V0.2 the xml file has been renamed from SIn.xml to
   SIn-`hostname`.xml to allow multiple installation control from
   a single installation

CONTACT INFO:

    Mauro Franzoni
    Via Torbole 1
    I-21100 VARESE
    ITALY

    e-mail: info@franzoni.info