perfsonar development work

[Guilherme Fernandes <>]

Maciej Glowiak wrote:
> Hi,
Hi Maciej,
> I am getting errors trying to run rpm_maker.pl script. I've read the 
> guide document, but it doesn't help. Maybe I missed another document?
>
> Running the script for the first time (having default properties 
> already set up) I get:
> ====================================================================
> mac@reed:/home/perfsonar$
>  perl rpm_maker.pl
> -- perfSONAR web services RPM maker --
> Enter service summary [XML Lookup Service]:
> Enter service name [XML-LS]:
> Enter service version [1.2]:
> Enter service dependencies [perfsonar-tomcat >= 6.0.7 , 
> perfsonar-exist >= 1.1.1]:
> Enter service description [perfSONAR XML Lookup Service]:
> Last entered message to user after installation:
>
> Use that one (y/n) [n]?y
> XML-LS-1.2/
> error: File /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES/XML-LS-1.2.tar.gz: No such file or 
> directory
> ====================================================================
>
> Running it for the second time:
> ====================================================================
> mac@reed:/home/perfsonar$
>  perl rpm_maker.pl
> -- perfSONAR web services RPM maker --
> Enter service summary [XML Lookup Service]:
> Enter service name [XML-LS]:
> Enter service version [1.2]:
> Enter service dependencies [perfsonar-tomcat >= 6.0.7 , 
> perfsonar-exist >= 1.1.1]:
> Enter service description [perfSONAR XML Lookup Service]:
> Last entered message to user after installation:
>
> Use that one (y/n) [n]?y
> mkdir: cannot create directory `rpm/BUILD': File exists
> mkdir: cannot create directory `rpm/RPMS': File exists
> mkdir: cannot create directory `rpm/SOURCES': File exists
> mkdir: cannot create directory `rpm/SPECS': File exists
> mkdir: cannot create directory `rpm/SRPMS': File exists
> mkdir: cannot create directory `XML-LS-1.2': File exists
> There was a problem creating the source file directory (which will 
> have the webapps directory inside it).
> Try doing it manually (mkdir XML-LS-1.2) and check what's wrong.
> ====================================================================
I'll make the script check if the directories are already created before 
attempting to create them.
> So, some questions:
>
> 1. What should I do before running rpm_maker.pl? Let's suppose I 
> created /home/perfsonar and have got compiled and configured service 
> (for instance: /home/mac/projects/perfsonar/trunk/geant2_java-xml-ls)
Do you have the webapps directory with a XML-LS-1.2 directory inside 
(containing a default installation of the service)?
> 2. What else do I need? (sources? why the 
> /usr/src/rpm/SOURCES/XML-LS-1.2.tar.gz is missing?)
The above directory should have been suficient. It's strange that it's 
looking in /usr/src if you're running it from /home/perfsonar. The 
scripts does a chdir("rpm") before proceeding to the next steps, maybe 
this is changing to /usr/src/rpm somehow? Maybe you could give me 
limited access to the machine you're trying to install so I can check it?

> 3. Now, there is a requirement to have the /home/perfsonar directory 
> in order to create RPM. What if I want to create RPM as non-root user 
> using my own directory? Couldn't it be configurable?
About the directory, it was decided that everything will be installed in 
the /home/perfsonar directory so that we don't have ask the users 
anything. The building process reflects basically the same things that 
will be done in the installation process, that's why you need to create 
the RPMs from that directory.

I don't think it's possible to build rpms using non-root users, but I'm 
not sure. If it's possible, I don't see any problems with it.

Best regards,

Guilherme
> Best regards
> Maciej