On 17.05.2012 [20:56:40 -0300], Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 16:44 -0700, Nishanth Aravamudan wrote:
> > Hi Lucas,
> > 
> > client job reports:
> > 
> > 05/17 19:36:13 WARNI|  boottool:0567| version 8.3 being used is not 
> > guaranteed to work properly. Mininum required version is 8.11.
> > 05/17 19:36:13 INFO |  boottool:0503| Installing grubby because currently 
> > installed version (8.3) is not recent enough
> > 05/17 19:36:15 DEBUG|  boottool:1251| Failed to build grubby during "make" 
> > step
> > 05/17 19:36:15 DEBUG|  boottool:1239| grubby.c:28:18: fatal error: popt.h: 
> > No such file or directory
> > 05/17 19:36:15 DEBUG|  boottool:1239| compilation terminated.
> > 05/17 19:36:15 DEBUG|  boottool:1239| make: *** [grubby.o] Error 1
> > 05/17 19:36:15 ERROR|       job:1330| JOB ERROR: Unable to instantiate 
> > boottool
> > 05/17 19:36:15 INFO |       job:0210| END ABORT     ----    ----    
> > timestamp=1337297775    localtime=May 17 19:36:15       Unable to 
> > instantiate boottool
> > 
> > Thoughts?
> > 
> > Seems like maybe I'm missing popt-devel? But I don't think the autotest
> 
> Yes, popt-devel is required to build grubby.
> 
> > harness should require me to change my kickstarts (although I am happy
> > to do so) to add that package. Is it possible to, from w/in autotest,
> > automatically install that package as a dependency?
> 
> We still don't have this support. We wrote a tool to act as an
> abstraction layer for package managers:
> 
> https://github.com/autotest/autotest/blob/master/client/shared/software_manager.py
> 
> That code could make possible what you describe, however I never got
> around using it inside autotest (yet another pending task)
> 
> https://github.com/autotest/autotest/issues/350
> 
> So, for now, it's advisable to add popt-devel to the kickstarts you
> have.
> 
> Sorry about the inconvenience :(

No problem, adding it now. Could we perhaps check to see if it's
installed in the "installing grubby" check and not bother building if we
can't find it?

-Nish

-- 
Nishanth Aravamudan <n...@us.ibm.com>
IBM Linux Technology Center

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