Hi, I tried to bootstrap from source on a plain Debian woody (3.0) installation.
When following exactly the manual it fails with: max:~# sh ./openpkg-1.3.1-1.3.1.src.sh --prefix=/kolab --user=kolab --group=kolab ./openpkg-1.3.1-1.3.1.src.sh: extracting to openpkg-1.3.1-1.3.1.src... ./openpkg-1.3.1-1.3.1.src.sh: extraction done. ./openpkg-1.3.1-1.3.1.src.sh: building for /kolab... ./openpkg.boot: ./openpkg.boot: No such file or directory This is the result of a failing uudecode. When using uudecode manually I get: max:~# tar tvf openpkg-1.3.1-1.3.1.src.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- rse/wheel 6214 2003-09-25 14:13:46 HISTORY -rw-r--r-- rse/wheel 8583 2003-09-25 14:13:46 README -rw-r--r-- rse/wheel 3805 2003-09-25 14:13:46 aux.prereq.sh -rw-r--r-- rse/wheel 6840 2003-09-25 14:13:46 aux.usrgrp.sh -rw-r--r-- rse/wheel 3795 2003-09-25 14:13:46 aux.wrapbin.sh -rw-r--r-- rse/wheel 3520 2003-09-25 14:13:46 aux.wrapsrc.sh -rw-r--r-- rse/wheel 1956216 2003-09-25 14:13:46 bash-2.05b.tar.gz tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors The above problem looks to me like the openpkg bootstrap shell script is not compatible to the Debian uudecode utility. When invoking the uudeview utility manually I can successfully unpack/decode the archive from the shell script. uudeview openpkg-1.3.1-1.3.1.src.sh The resulting openpkg-1.3.1-1.3.1.src.tar.Z is actually missleading. The file is actually not a compressed file but a plain tar archive. If I remember correctly it was decided during the 1.3 development not to depend on the compress utility anymore. In addition I would like to know what you think about replacing uudecode with uudeview -i in the bootstrap shell script. At least for me this helped on Debian 3.0 and SuSE 8.2. Last but not least I would love to see the bootstrap script to check for all required prerequisites (required utilities) instead of failing "silently" or giving missleading error messages. Regards, -- martin Dipl.-Phys. Martin Konold e r f r a k o n Erlewein, Frank, Konold & Partner - Beratende Ingenieure und Physiker Nobelstrasse 15, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany fon: 0711 67400963, fax: 0711 67400959 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
