From 39a76b9cba477a9d43a93554aa47817346267174 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: William Leuschner <wel2138@rit.edu>
Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 11:09:31 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Update incorrect information in README about ksh and source
Signed-off-by: William Leuschner <wel2138@rit.edu>
---
README.rst | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 0809a2e8d9..c81125848d 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -375,10 +375,6 @@ OpenBSD
There is currently no port for OpenBSD. Additionally, OpenBSD's security
settings require a slightly more difficult installation process.
-1) Ensure that you have the Bourne Again Shell (``bash``) installed. The Korn
- Shell (``ksh``), which is OpenBSD's default shell, does not support the
- ``source`` command necessary to activate the python virtualenv to be set up
- later.
2) Create a new directory in ``/usr/local`` called ``_synapse``. Also, create a
new user called ``_synapse`` and set that directory as the new user's home.
This is required because, by default, OpenBSD only allows binaries which need
@@ -386,9 +382,9 @@ settings require a slightly more difficult installation process.
``/usr/local``.
3) ``su`` to the new ``_synapse`` user and change to their home directory.
4) Create a new virtualenv: ``virtualenv -p python2.7 ~/.synapse``
-5) Start a ``bash`` shell
6) Source the virtualenv configuration located at
- ``/usr/local/_synapse/.synapse/bin/activate``
+ ``/usr/local/_synapse/.synapse/bin/activate``. This is done in ``ksh`` by
+ using the ``.`` command, rather than ``bash``'s ``source``.
7) Optionally, use ``pip`` to install ``lxml``, which Synapse needs to parse
webpages for their titles.
8) Use ``pip`` to install this repository: ``pip install
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