[AG-TECH] AG2.4 setup error

[Douglas Kosovic]

Hi Zephyr ,

> I did what you suggested and then it complained three dependencies needed
> which are pyGlobus, pyOpenSSL_AG and SOAPpy. During the rebuild of 
> pyGlobus
> with pyGlobus-1.0.10-2.fc3.src.rpm, I found it set the $GLOBUS_LOCATION to
> /usr/lib64/globus while I installed it to /usr/lib/globus, so I made a
> symbolic link for them. Then it came with the following errors:

If globus-accessgrid got installed into /usr/lib/globus rather than 
/usr/lib64/globus, then the wrong version of globus-accessgrid got 
installed.

Try the following:
    rpmbuild --rebuild globus-accessgrid-2.4.3-1.fc3.src.rpm
    rpm -i /usr/src/suse/x86_64/globus-accessgrid-2.4.3-1.x86_64.rpm
then
    rpmbuild --rebuild pyGlobus-1.0.10-2.fc3.src.rpm

> For the other two components, pyOpenSSL_AG needs elinks and SOAPpy needs
> python-abi and the procedure of installing them are both problematic.

You could remove elinks from the dependency and comment out the 
pyOpenSSL-elinks.patch lines. Later versions of Fedora don't come with lynx, 
hence the elinks patch.

The python-abi dependency could also be removed. On Fedora, python-abi is 
set to the Python version (e.g. 2.3 or 2.4, it's to prevent a RPM built 
against Python 2.4 being installed on a Python 2.3 based Fedora, etc)

> During the time trying to solve the problem I found it is hard to find 
> rpms
> that support SUSE, most of them I've found are for FC. Is it possible that
> switch to FC can make it easier to setup the AGTK on Linux. Which
> configuration(including Linux version and AGTK version) do you recommend?

I'm currently maintaining 6 RPM yum repositories for i386 and x86-64 Fedora 
Core 3, 4 and 5. The RPMs are specifically targeted for that particular 
Fedora version and should cleanly install (with RPMs dependencies from 
Fedora Core and Fedora Extras). If you decide on going for Fedora, I would 
recommend FC5.

I don't have the hardware or hard disk space to do the same for multiple 
versions of SUSE.

> Please give some advices on the problem.

Sorry I don't have SUSE installed anywhere at the moment, so I'm not able to 
reproduce the problems. Someone else on this list had previously built the 
compat-AccessGrid RPMs on x86-64 SUSE, so I assumed it would be pretty 
smooth to build on SUSE.

Cheers,
Doug