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diff --git a/taler-merchant/README b/taler-merchant/README index 7b7ebf5..7d45e58 100644 --- a/taler-merchant/README +++ b/taler-merchant/README @@ -1,6 +1,35 @@ The merchant for the Taler payment system. -The development version is used for this build. Taler also requires some -bootstrapping in order to follow the usual build steps. +Building this package on Slackware 15.0 requires: -Download and create the expected sourcecode into a tar file by running ./download.sh. + - Postgres 15.x or greater, slackbuilds.org has version 14.x. + - Build a newer version of llvm, by setting CC=clang, and installing llvm from Slackware Current. + - The pre-release version of Gnunet. + +Installing this package automatically creates the taler-merchant user and group. + +The taler merchant requires a postgres database to be configured. The setup +described here assumes postgres was installed with using 'Peer authentication' +by default (omitting '-A md5' when running 'initdb' after postgres +installation). + +``` +# Create the database and its user. +sudo -u postgres -- createuser taler-merchant +sudo -u postgres -- createdb taler-merchant --owner taler-merchant + +# Initialize the database, must be done after each upgrade +sudo -u taler-merchant -- taler-merchant-dbinit +``` + +To have the taler system start and stop with your host, add to /etc/rc.d/rc.local: + + if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.taler-merchant ]; then + /etc/rc.d/rc.taler-merchant start + fi + +And to /etc/rc.d/rc.local_shutdown (creating if needed): + + if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.taler-merchant ]; then + /etc/rc.d/rc.taler-merchant stop + fi |