[AG-TECH] update - AG3 for Debian/Ubuntu

[Christoph Willing]

On 07/04/2007, at 11:37 AM, Christoph Willing wrote:

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> On 06/04/2007, at 5:23 AM, Christoph Willing wrote:
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>> On 05/04/2007, at 11:25 PM, Derek Piper wrote:
> [snip]
>>> 	Also, I was wondering if these packages play nice with the  
>>> AccessGrid 2.4 release from Steve Smith? I have those installed  
>>> too and I'd like to be able to run both, but I'm not seeing any  
>>> sort of indiciation of a compatibility add-on like there is for  
>>> the RedHat/Fedora packages.
>>
>> I hadn't tried that, but did so just now (is it really 2.4? I  
>> could only find 2.3). It looks like there's a name clash for  
>> Quickbridge, so its probably easiest if I make a change in the AG3  
>> packaging - later on today. I was hoping to to avoid an extra  
>> compat package but ...
>>
>>
>> Until then you'd have to deinstall your AG2 package to try the AG3  
>> package.
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>
> Derek,
>
> I've just updated the accessgrid & pyopensslag packages to remove  
> the namespace clashes with the AG2.3 package (turned out to be  
> several apart from QuickBridge). After an apt-get update or a  
> Synaptic "Reload", the AG3 package will install alongside a pre- 
> existing 2.3 installation. Please note that the order is important  
> - if you must have both versions installed, the AG2.3 package  
> should be installed first, then the AG3 package.
>
> _However_, the AG3 version will not run now due to the presence of  
> 2 versions wxgtk - wxgtk2.4 is a dependency of AG2.3 and wxgtk2.6  
> is a dependency of AG3 and they won't work together properly (looks  
> like AG2 still runs OK though).
>
> A possible solution is to rebuild the AG2.3 version to use wxgtk2.6  
> and I've emailed the AG2.3 maintainer Steve Smith about this  
> possibility. Unfortunately, he's left USydney so may not see the  
> email and AFAIK is not involved in AG anymore anyway so ....


Derek,

In the meantime, I found a way to repackage the existing AG2.3 .deb  
and change the dependencies without a complete rebuild - the new  
version ran OK with wxgtk2.6, as we need it to, but it couldn't  
connect to any venues i.e. useless.

However I was able to use the same technique to use an existing AG2.4  
package (built for another Linux distribution) to construct a new  
AG2.4 .deb package. This works properly and it more or less works  
together with a new AG3 package I have in progress. There are some  
kinks (not bugs) still to be ironed out before I can release them,  
but I can't work on that for a few days i.e. they should be available  
sometime this coming week.


> BTW, to properly deinstall the AG2.3 package, the packages:
>     accessgrid2.3
>     wxgtk2.4
should be libwxgtk2.4

>     wxgtk2.4-python
should be libwxgtk2.4-python

>     globusdatamanaggcc32gcc32dbgpthr3.0.2
> should all be removed. Then, AG3 can be installed (with better  
> features anyway)


Until the new packages are ready, you could still try the existing  
AG3 package if you properly deinstall your AG2.3 package (as above -  
note corrections). You can always reinstall the AG2.3 package if you  
need to, but you may find the facilities in AG3 too good to want to  
go back :)


chris


Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8350
QCIF Access Grid Manager
University of Queensland