Christian,

Thanks for your help. I think I "got" it :))

-) I was able to install some of the missing RPMs via zypper:
# zypper install openssl-devel curl-devl sgml-skel
...

-) I got the git tar file from
http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.6.0.2.tar.gz

-) I built from source but got an error on asciidoc - one of the missing
RPMs. Hopefully that is just needed for documentation:
# ./configure --prefix=/usr
# make all doc
...
asciidoc -b xhtml11 -d manpage -f asciidoc.conf \
         -agit_version=1.6.0.2 -o git-add.html+ git-add.txt
make[1]: asciidoc: Command not found
make[1]: *** [git-add.html] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/git-1.6.0.2/Documentation'
make: *** [doc] Error 2

-) I was able to build just the commands:
# make install
...
# which git
/usr/bin/git

-) Then using git failed, but at least it ran.
# git clone http://git.gitorious.org/open-ovf/mainline.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /usr/local/src/mainline/.git/
fatal: http://git.gitorious.org/open-ovf/mainline.git/info/refs download
error - transfer closed with 30 bytes remaining to read

It probably failed because of the IBM firewall not allowing access to the
Internet.  I'll rebuild on a virtaul machine that allows access to the
Internet.

Alan,
> You need to dig out the listed packages and install them first
> (and their dependancies).
Thanks, I was just being lazy first.

If any of the SuSE and Red Hat distro developers are listening, "git"
would be a good package to add to s390x.

"Mike MacIsaac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>   (845) 433-7061

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