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Re: [pcp] Getting harder to install PCP

To: Martin Hicks <mort@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [pcp] Getting harder to install PCP
From: Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:38:20 +1000 (EST)
Cc: pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx, David Wright <daw@xxxxxxx>
In-reply-to: <20090716174819.GV5068@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
----- "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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