[LON-CAPA-dev] dependency bug in LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-7.suse?

[Stuart Peter Raeburn]

Martin, 

It looks like the krb5-libs dependency mistakenly made its way into 
LONCAPA-prerequisites 1.7 for SuSE 9.2 in early October when the 
perl-DateManip dependency was added. 

I'll build a corrected LONCAPA-prerequisites for SuSE 9.2 (x86 and x86_64 
versions) in the next couple of days, once I have had an opportunity to 
repurpose build machines that were being used for SLES 9 and SuSE 10.0. 

Out of curiosity, do you plan to continue with SuSE 9.2 for the foreseeable 
future, or do you have a timetable for migrating the SFU LON-CAPA servers to 
SuSE 9.3 or 10.0? 

Stuart 

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA development/support 


Martin Siegert writes: 

> Hi there, 
> 
> I believe that there is a bug in the LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-7.suse
> package for SuSE-9.2: it lists krb5-libs as a dependency, but krb5-libs
> cannot be installed on SuSE-9.2 since it conflicts with the heimdal-lib
> package that comes with SuSE-9.2. Thus, I had to use the --nodeps flag
> to install the LONCAPA-prerequisites-1-7.suse rpm, which completely
> defeats the purpose of that package. 
> 
> I believe that the krb5-libs package is necessary only to compile the
> perl-Authen-Krb4 and perl-Authen-Krb5 packages using STATIC libraries.
> The krb5-libs packages should never be installed on a SuSE-9.x box
> with x < 3 (for SuSE-9.1 I actually only created a krb5-devel package
> - not a krb5-libs package - which I use exclusively to compile the
> perl-Authen-Krb* packages). 
> 
> Thus, my question is: are the perl-Authen-Krb4 and perl-Authen-Krb5
> compiled using static libraries? As far as I can tell this is the case: 
> 
> ldd /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Authen/Krb5/Krb5.so
> 	linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
> 	libcom_err.so.2 => /lib/libcom_err.so.2 (0x4009a000)
> 	libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x4009e000)
> 	libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x400b1000)
> 	/lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000) 
> 
> In that case the solution is easy: re"compile" the LONCAPA-prerequisites
> package without the krb5-libs dependency. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Martin 
> 
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