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

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Robert,

The versions for host dependency packages come from get_ver in
bin/Ltibutils.pm.  The default rule is to run:

prog --version 2>/dev/null`
and then match out the version using:
my ($ver) = m,(\d+\.\d+(?:\.\d+)?),;

Can you run this at the command line and send the output?

In the case of wget LTIB is looking for any version.

In the mean time to work around this comment out the line:

            wget            0

Which is around line 95 in the ltib script

Regards, Stuart

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 11:38 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>    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 to run it are either missing or out of date.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
> 
> 
> 
> 
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