perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Jochen Reinwand <>]

Hi Christian,

Looks like Verena just used the RPM spec file from Fedora on openSUSE. Of 
course the wrong dependency is in this spec file...
I'm not sure if I can fix this soon.
Please just install the packages using "rpm -i --nodeps". They should work 
nevertheless. Afterwards you can still deal with missing Perl modules, when 
you try to start the daemon. This can also be quite tricky on an openSUSE 
system. Most likely the start script won't work out of the box.
Or perhaps you should really try the CPAN tarballs! They should work in any 
case. Then you can start the daemon (perfsonar.pl) by hand and everything 
should work fine.

regards,
Jochen

On Thursday 15 May 2008 14:41, Rodesch Christian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks a lot for your help, I just downloaded the files and tried to
> install them:
>
> eomer:/usr/src # rpm -i Perl-NMWG-0.01-MDM_perfSONAR_3.suse.noarch.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
>         perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8) is needed by
> perl-NMWG-0.01-MDM_perfSONAR_3.suse.noarch
>
> but I still get the same error.
>
> What else can I do to install BWCTL?
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian
>
> Jochen Reinwand wrote:
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> > Sorry for the long delay, but it took indeed some time to get things
> > ready. openSUSE RPMs and CPAN tarballs are now available on the wiki:
> > http://wiki.perfsonar.net/jra1-wiki/index.php/BWCTL_and_OWAMP_MP
> >
> > My colleague Verena created the openSUSE RPMs, because we are using
> > openSUSE on our desktop machines. So it was quite easy for her to create
> > them. But at the moment there is an RPM missing for a Perl module we are
> > using. I will try to fix that. Meanwhile you can use the platform
> > independent tarballs, if you like. All required RPMs should be available
> > as RPMs for openSUSE, except IPC::Shareable. You can install it via one
> > of the typical CPAN methods, though.
> >
> > @Loukik: Should we make the openSUSE RPMs and the platform independent
> > tarballs available at the download directory?
> >
> > regards,
> > Jochen
> >
> > On Thursday 15 May 2008 09:49, you wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> ok, so is there any other way how i can install the BWCTL packages on
> >> Suse?
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Christian
> >>
> >> Jochen Reinwand wrote:
> >>> Hi!
> >>>
> >>> On Thursday 15 May 2008 09:00, Rodesch Christian wrote:
> >>>> Thanks again for your help. But I don't understand the problem, even
> >>>> though we use Suse on our servers, the Perl version is the correct
> >>>> one, so normally it should work or am I wrong?
> >>>
> >>> This is not a Perl problem! It's only an RPM problem! Perl RPMs for
> >>> Fedora expect the dependency 'perl(:MODULE_COMPAT_5.8.8)'. This
> >>> dependency is simply unknown in the openSUSE RPM system. I just tried
> >>> to find it on my openSUSE workstation and haven't found anything
> >>> similar.
> >>>
> >>>> Would it help if I installed Perl 5.10.0 manually?
> >>>
> >>> No. It has nothing to do with the Perl version itself. It's really only
> >>> the RPM system that has problems.
> >>>
> >>> regards,
> >>> Jochen

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