perfsonar development work

[Maciej Glowiak <>]

Jason Zurawski wrote:
> Maciej;
>
> > > > But installing exist db 1.1.1 I am getting error:
> > > >
> > > > =========================================================
> > > > mac@reed:/home/perfsonar$
> > > >  sudo rpm -i --nodeps --force
> > > > perfsonar-exist-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm
> > > > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.10624: 7: Syntax error: Bad substitution
> > > > =========================================================
> > > >
> > > > Have anyone had the same problem or there is something specific to my
> > > > machine?
> > > Just a guess, but I have had issues like this when /bin/sh is really
> > > just a sym link to something else such as bash.  There may a command
> > > that sh should be able to interpret but the substitute shell handles
> > > differently.
> > Thanks. I thought about it and checked. "sh" is, indeed, the symlink,
> > but to "dash" which seems to be right shell.
> >
> > In fact, there is no shell at the beginning of the script, so I don't
> > know which one is appropriate.
>
> Dash appears to be the Ubuntu shell now, I appear to have it as well:
>
> jason@latrobe:~$
>  ls -als /bin | grep sh
> 692 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 701680 2007-10-05 10:37 bash
> 128 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 123800 2006-11-08 22:28 bsd-csh
>   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     21 2008-02-12 20:42 csh ->
> /etc/alternatives/csh
>  84 -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  80308 2007-09-29 08:47 dash
>   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      4 2008-02-12 07:04 rbash -> bash
>   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      4 2008-02-12 07:04 sh -> dash
>   0 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root      4 2008-02-12 07:04 sh.distrib -> bash
>
>  I found this posting that may be helpful:
>
> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.msdos.general/2006-11/msg00001.html
>
> Basically if dash is a minimal shell, it wont do stuff that bash is able
> to.  If the RPMs were created on and with the Redhat based distros in
> mind (and would use bash and not dash), it may make sense to temporarily
> re-link sh to bash and see if that solves the problem.  NOTE: Jason can
> not be held responsible for nuking anyones machine with his advice :)

Jason, in the meantime I used "bash" instead of dash and it works now. 
Thanks for help. I didn't know the difference between dash and bash so 
far :)

For eXist DB
=====================================================================
mac@reed:/home/perfsonar$ sudo rpm -U --nodeps --verbose 
perfsonar-exist-1.1.1-1.i386.rpm

Preparing packages for installation...
perfsonar-exist-1.1.1-1
ln: creating symbolic link 
`/home/perfsonar/perfsonar-exist/perfsonar-exist-1.1.1' to 
`/home/perfsonar/perfsonar-exist-1.1.1': File exists
patching file conf/server.xml
Hunk #1 succeeded at 113 with fuzz 1.

--- Exist XML database has been installed.

=====================================================================

and for XML LS:
=====================================================================
mac@reed:/home/perfsonar$ sudo rpm -U --nodeps --verbose 
rpm/RPMS/i386/XML-LS-1.2-1.i386.rpm

Preparing packages for installation...
        package XML-LS-1.2-1 is already installed
mac@reed:/home/perfsonar$ sudo rpm -e --nodeps --verbose ML-LS-1.2 

error: package ML-LS-1.2 is not installed
mac@reed:/home/perfsonar$
 sudo rpm -e --nodeps --verbose XML-LS-1.2
mac@reed:/home/perfsonar$ sudo rpm -U --nodeps --verbose 
rpm/RPMS/i386/XML-LS-1.2-1.i386.rpm
Preparing packages for installation...
XML-LS-1.2-1
ln: creating symbolic link `/home/perfsonar/webapps/XML-LS/XML-LS-1.2' 
to `/home/perfsonar/webapps/XML-LS-1.2': File exists
patching file conf/server.xml
Hunk #1 succeeded at 116 with fuzz 1.
--- XML Lookup Service has been installed. ---

=====================================================================

Best regards
Maciej
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