[AG-TECH] Building AG for Mac Via the Command-Line

[Derek Piper]

	Hi Ashnil,

	You can always do X11 forwarding via SSH or VNC. It might be useful for 
you to have that in place since you will need it for Certificate 
Requests anyway, once the AG software is fully installed.

	Derek

Ashnil Kumar wrote:
> 
> I'm currently working on building the AccessGrid to run on an XServe G5 
> running Mac OS X Server 10.3. I have the prerequisite components 
> installed, and am currently building from CVS (as described in 
> AG-Mac-Build-HOWTO.rtf). My problem arises from the fact that I am 
> remotely logged in to the XServe via ssh (from an Ubuntu Box) and am 
> having difficulties at the stage where the script asks me to use the 
> PackageManager UI to enter several pieces of information.
> 
> Since I can't access the UI, is there anyway to use pimp to create the 
> package?
> 
> Below is the end output just before I get stuck.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ashnil
> 
> 
> ====
> 
> SourceDir =  /mnt/scratch/agmac
> BuildDir =  /mnt/scratch/agmac/AccessGrid-20051208_114947
> DestDir =  /mnt/scratch/agmac/dist-20051208_114947
> metainfo =  Snapshot_20051208_114947
> version =  3.0
> TmpDir: /tmp/tmp5QKMI-
> 
> 
> Insert the following information into the Package Manager UI:
> ---Description---
> Title: Access Grid Toolkit
> Version: 3.0
> Description:
> Version 2.3 of the Access Grid ToolKit.
> 
> See http://www.accessgrid.org for more details.
> ---Files---
> Root: /tmp/tmp5QKMI-/pkg_contents
> ---Resources---
> Resources: /tmp/tmp5QKMI-/pkg_resources
> ---Display---
> Display name: Access Grid Toolkit
> Identifier: edu.uchicago.accessgrid
> Get-Info string: AccessGrid Toolkit 2.3
> Short Version: 3.0
> Verify Major and Minor versions are correct
> 
> Waiting for you to Create the package in an empty folder and quit the 
> Package Manager
> 
> 

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