----- "Martin Hicks" <mort@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:23:41PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> >
> > The latest pcp rpm wont install anymore.
> >
> > trng180:~/Desktop # rpm -ivh pcp*
> > warning: pcp-2.8.12-1.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY,
> key ID 74886b63
> > error: Failed dependencies:
> > initscripts is needed by pcp-2.8.12-1.x86_64
> > rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by pcp-2.8.12-1.x86_64
> > qt4 >= 4.2 is needed by pcp-gui-1.4.3-1.x86_64
> > rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by pcp-gui-1.4.3-1.x86_64
> >
> > why make it harder to install pcp? I am using sles10sp2 x86_64.
>
> I think this problem likely reflects that this RPM was build against
> a
> redhat distro. Try building from source and using "./Makepkgs"
>
> I'd love if we could do away with the distro-specific dependencies,
> but
Those deps are all generated by rpm on the fly too (except for qt4, which
is build-time conditional in build/rpm/pcp-gui.spec.in) so I don't think
we can do away with those at all.
> I don't think it's entirely possible. We likely need to create an
> additional level of directories on the download site:
>
> download/rpm/redhat
> download/rpm/suse
Yeah, possibly even more specific, like "rhel5" and "sles10", etc?
cheers.
--
Nathan
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