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author | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2012-04-16 20:32:12 +0000 |
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committer | Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> | 2012-04-16 20:32:12 +0000 |
commit | 2d26c4f5e632286cf6a75e20229f95fa799f5147 (patch) | |
tree | e9179438e7d39a02ddb655bec818bdcb5a203e77 /README | |
parent | 6f45f4a6b5a65ab12db71623877ce075f218e98c (diff) |
Clean up README files. Mostly this means changing them to pointers to
the real consolidated documentation.
Delete old Doxygen-based rpkid manual and stuff that went with it,
while retaining ability to generate Doxygen manual of internals for
the libraries.
This closes #232.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=4424
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
-rw-r--r-- | README | 102 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 94 deletions
@@ -1,101 +1,15 @@ $Id$ -Files associated with routing PKI project. +RPKI Toolkit -Quick start for the impatient: +See: -- To install the relying party tools, see rcynic/README. +- The primary documentation at http://trac.rpki.net/ (recommended), -- To install the certificate generation system, see - rpkid/doc/Installation. +- The PDF manual in doc/manual.pdf, or -- To install the Django portal GUI, see portal-gui/README. +- The flat text pages doc/doc.RPKI.RP.rpki-rtr -Required reading: - -- RFC 3779 -- Portions of RFCs 5280 and 5652 -- draft-ietf-sidr-* -- draft-ymbk-rpki-rtr-protocol - -Programs: - -- openssl: development copy of OpenSSL with RFC 3779 support added. - Patches for this have been submitted to the OpenSSL project and were - incorporated into release OpenSSL 0.9.8e. - - At present we're using an unmodified copy of the OpenSSL 1.0 - release, but the RFC 3779 code isn't enabled by default at compile - time, so we need to build our own copy with the right configuration - options. So we ship a distribution tarball and a makefile that - knows how to unpack, configure, and build it, so that other tools in - this package can use the resulting libraries. - -- rcynic: "cynical rsync" validator for rsync-based RPKI repositories. - -- rpkid: rpkid and friends, a collection of Python programs to handle - the publication side of the RPKI project. - -- rtr-origin: a Python implementation of the "RPKI/Router" protocol - described in draft-ymbk-rpki-rtr-protocol. - -- utils and scripts: various little test programs and utilities, not - really intended for use by anyone but the author. If they're - useful, cool, enjoy, but if they blow up in your face, set your - computer on fire, and turn your cat blue, that's your problem. - -Other: - -- presentations: miscellaneous presentations and design documents for - the project. - -Building: - -- The code is mostly a mix of C and Python; some of the C code is - called by the Python code, so you'll want to build the C code first. - In theory, the overall build process is simple: - - $ ./configure - $ make - - If this fails, please report the failure, and details about the - platform on which it occurred. If you tried to build the code some - other way instead of building it this way, and your attempt failed, - please try building it this way before asking for help. :) - - Note that building POW (the interface between OpenSSL and Python) - will fail if you don't have the required Python header files - installed. On some platforms those files are installed along with - Python itself, on others you might have to install a separate - python-dev package. - - See below for more information about documentation, including - further build instructions and dependencies. - -Documentation: - -- At the moment there's no overall documentation for the entire - package. Sorry. Will get to that eventually. For now, there's - separate documentation for the major components (below). - -- rcynic: See rcynic/README. - -- rpkid: - - - See rpkid/doc/manual.tar.gz for a gzipped tarball of the entire - manual in HTML format. - - - There's also a PDF version of the manual in rpkid/doc/manual.pdf. - The documentation on the code internals is uglier than in the HTML - version, but the installation and setup documenation should be - readable. - - - There are also flat text versions of the most important parts of - the installation and setup documentation, in the rpkid/doc - directory. - - All of the rpkid documentation is produced by Doxygen from a single - set of documentation sources. The flat text files are html2text - dumps of the HTML. - -- Others: See READMEs and source code in the individual directories. +For the impatient: installation instructions are in +doc/doc.RPKI.Installation, but be warned that you'll have to read more +of the manual to configure the software after you've installed it. |