commit 1097e68e04ddf47c0e9687f862f52a76c34cab67 Author: aagbsn aagbsn@extc.org Date: Wed Sep 21 03:13:21 2011 -0700

4067 - update BwAuthority README

update README to bump library versions

recommend using newer versions of SQLAlchemy and Elixir in the README. direct postgresql users to install python-psycopg2. --- NetworkScanners/BwAuthority/README.BwAuthorities | 16 ++++++++++------ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NetworkScanners/BwAuthority/README.BwAuthorities b/NetworkScanners/BwAuthority/README.BwAuthorities index 516465b..2653404 100644 --- a/NetworkScanners/BwAuthority/README.BwAuthorities +++ b/NetworkScanners/BwAuthority/README.BwAuthorities @@ -34,9 +34,12 @@ need to be running the master branch from tor git.

4. Download SQLAlchemy 0.5.x-latest and Elixir 0.6.x-latest

-While TorFlow is written to be compatible with both 0.4.x and 0.5.x of -SQLAlchemy, 0.4.8 seems to exhibit odd object persistence bugs. If your -distribution does not provide 0.5.4 or newer, you will likely want to +The latest version of SQLAlchemy is 0.7.2 and the latest version of Elixir +is 0.7.1 at the time of writing. While TorFlow is written to be compatible +with 0.4.x and 0.5.x and 0.6.x of SQLAlchemy, 0.5.5 was noted for +problems parsing postgres database URLS, 0.4.8 seems to exhibit odd object persistence bugs. + +If your distribution does not provide 0.7.x or newer, you will likely want to download that tarball from:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/SQLAlchemy/ @@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ Untar it in the same directory that contains the TorFlow checkout and your git checkout (for peace of mind, you will want all three in the same place).

-If your distribution does not provide Elixir 0.6.1 or above, do the +If your distribution does not provide Elixir 0.7.x or above, do the same with Elixir:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Elixir/ @@ -53,12 +56,13 @@ http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Elixir/ So for example, an ls in ~/code/tor/ should look like this:

# ls ~/code/tor/ -Elixir-0.6.1 SQLAlchemy-0.5.5 tor.git -Elixir-0.6.1.tar.gz SQLAlchemy-0.5.5.tar.gz torflow-trunk +Elixir-0.7.1 SQLAlchemy-0.7.2 tor.git +Elixir-0.7.1.tar.gz SQLAlchemy-0.7.2.tar.gz torflow-trunk

Both these libraries also depend upon python-pysqlite2, which should be a package for your distribution (you want 2.3.x for SQLite 3.x).

+If you want to use postgres support, you should also install python-psycopg2.

5. Enable voting on bandwidths in your authority torrc