[Ltib] "./ltib" from new m5474 BSP fails on RHEL 4, looking for "wget" version

[Robert P. J. Day]

  hi, i'm trying to install the latest ltib from the 20080811 BSP ISO  
on an RHEL 4 system, and i'm getting the following (actually, quite  
predictable) error:

==========
ltib cannot be run because one or more of the host packages needed
to run it are either missing or out of date.

Please install/upgrade these packages and then re-try.

Package                Minimum ver   Installed info
-------                -----------   ---------------
wget                   0             not installed
Died at ./ltib.orig line 1241.
traceback:
 main::host_checks:1241
  main:489
==========

  wget is, in fact, installed but because this is RHEL 4, the rpm  
version of wget is a bit funky:

$ rpm -q wget
wget-1.10.2-0.40E
$

  note the trailing "E" on the package name, which i'm *guessing* is  
the problem.  i'm not sure how ltib does its version checking -- i  
perused the code briefly and i can see this in the ltib perl script:


# check the most basic host services are available
sub check_basic_deps
{
    my @failed = ();

    foreach my $dep ( split(/\n/, $cf->{pre_install_deps}) ) {
        next if $dep =~ m,^\s*$,;
        next if $dep =~ m,^\s*#,;
        $dep =~ s,^\s*,,;
        my ($pkg, $min) = split(/\s+/, $dep);
        my ($ver, $info) = get_ver($pkg);
        warn "pkg=$pkg, min=$min, got: $ver, $info\n" if $verbose;
        ... etc etc ...

  in any event, i didn't follow through any further since i figured  
others probably know this code intimately.  i also realize that RHEL  
is not officially supported but fixing this issue would seem to be a  
fairly simple thing to do, no?  thoughts?

rday