Michael thanks for the response.
Michael Schloh von Bennewitz wrote: >Dear Joseph, > >I sent you this reply, but I suspect that due to technical problems you >did not recieve my response. I'll send it again. > >---- > >Hello Joseph, > >So you got OpenPKG compiling, good. I hope you mean that you bootstrapped it >successfully and now have a working installation. I assume you ran the >bootstrap shell script like: > > $ sh openpkg-20020312-20020312.src.sh --prefix=/cw --user=cw --group=cw > >and then as root: > > # sh openpkg-20020312-20020312.<YourArchitecture&OS>.sh > >If you did this, then under /cw you should see the subdirectories and files > > README bin etc info libexec man share web > RPM cgi include lib local sbin var > >Tell me if you have gotten this far, because I don't know exactly what you >mean by 'the files are currently sitting there uninstalled.' > I run the scripts as above but the directories under /cw are not created. Just files reside there. Here is a output of what happens under solaris 8 and Linux root@wireless2:/root> ls /cw CVS dot.bash_login openpkg.spec rpmmacros README dot.bashrc patch-2.5.4.tar.gz rpmpopt aux.prereq.sh dot.lsyncrc rc rpmrc aux.usrgrp.sh gzip-1.3.2.tar rc.conf rpmtool aux.wrapbin.sh lib rc.func rpmtool.8 aux.wrapsrc.sh local.README rc.openpkg rpmtool.pod bash-2.05a.tar.gz lsync root.README rpmx.pl bzip2-1.0.2.tar.gz lsync.8 rpm-4.0.2.patch.bugfix rpmx.sh curl-7.9.3.tar.gz lsync.pod rpm-4.0.2.patch.feature shtool curl-7.9.5.tar.gz make-3.79.1.tar.gz rpm-4.0.2.patch.porting tar-1.13.25.tar.gz db-3.2.9.patch openpkg.boot rpm-4.0.2.patch.regen zlib-1.1.3.tar.gz db-3.2.9.tar.gz openpkg.pgp rpm-4.0.2.tar.gz > >By the way, when I get stuck starting a new OpenPKG instance, I usually reach >for the quick reference which conveniently explains the above steps and a few >more in about three screenfulls. Particularly helpful are the paragraphs >'Bootstrapping OpenPKG from Scratch', 'Prepare Your Shell Environment', and >'To Install OpenPKG Packages.' > > http://www.openpkg.org/doc/quickref/openpkg.txt > >I hope this helps, and thanks for using OpenPKG. > >Regards, >Michael > Sorry what do you mean by preparing your shell environment. Can you please give me a example under korn shell regards Joseph ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org User Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
