Installing Schleuder
I have been looking for a solution to have a working test of Schleuder working on our mail server. As per now there are two possible approaches. None of them is ideal for different reasons.
Approach 1: Schleuder is a Ruby application. More precisely it is installed as a ruby gem as it is written in Thor (a small framework to write command line interfaces as a gem)
As other gems, Schleuder has a number of dependencies that it needs to run. Namely other gems. Some of these gems are just downloaded, some need to be compiled with native extensions.
These gems are basically written in C and need ruby-dev to be compiled for your system. Pulling ruby-dev pulls a lot of packages. Some of these we wouldn't like to keep on the mail server (e.g. having a compiler).
Note that these gems do not need to be compiled system wide. It would be possible to use either rvm or rbenv to manage ruby versions and bundler to manage gem dependencies. These can all run as user. Still we will need the possibility to compile software on the machine (at least during the deployment phase).
Approach 2: This involve compiling gems on a different machine and creating deb packages that will install the required dependencies for the Schleuder user. I have left the required packages on:
/srv/schleuder.torproject.org/home/pkg/
This way you can inspect them and see if you are happy with how and what is going to be installed. Note that I have compiled this on a test VM that I use locally. There might be arch mismatch with our mail server that I will need to address (this is just a test now).
As I said at the beginning there are various pros and cons for each approach, so before continuing I think it would be beneficial to discuss this here and agree on a possible solution. Maybe there is also a 3rd approach that I haven't fully considered, in this case feel free to propose something and I will investigate it.