Hi Bernard, I like the idea yum can handle this kind of issues when the version of oscar packages is newer than the distro one (e.g., ganglia from Fedora 8). Sure, we can do a workaround as you mentioned. I think it is a worthwhile attempt. I will try and let you know what happens.
Regards, - DongInn Bernard Li wrote: > Shouldn't the Ganglia opkg package require specific version of Ganglia > (i.e. 3.0.6) -- in this case the Ganglia version which came from the > distribution (3.0.5) will not be selected. > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > On 1/1/08, DongInn Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I found that setting up oscar on Fedora 8 is not as easy as on all the other >> linux distros that we support. >> (test r6708 on Fedora 8-X86) >> >> Most importantly, yum can not really handle the dependency of some packages >> on Fedora 8. Especially there is a Fedora 8 ganglia (3.0.5) competing with >> ganglia-3.0.6 ported on branch-5-1. There are some problems on resolving the >> dependencies on two different versions of ganglia. Because of that, oscar >> could not finish the installation of ganglia. >> >> I think there are more but the obvious conflicts are from the ganglia one >> now. >> Here is what I found on oscarinstall.log. >> >> ------------------------------------------------ >> >> Dependencies Resolved >> 1199162148.52 >> >> ============================================================================= >> Package Arch Version Repository Size >> ============================================================================= >> Installing: >> opkg-disable-services-server noarch 1.1.0-1 oscar_fc-8-i386 >> 1.7 k >> opkg-ganglia-server noarch 3.0.5-2 oscar_fc-8-i386 3.2 k >> opkg-lam-server noarch 7.1.4-7 oscar_fc-8-i386 3.7 k >> opkg-maui-server noarch 3.2.6p19-8 oscar_fc-8-i386 2.2 k >> opkg-mtaconfig-server noarch 1.1.0-1 oscar_fc-8-i386 4.7 k >> opkg-netbootmgr-server noarch 1.7-1 oscar_fc-8-i386 3.0 k >> opkg-ntpconfig-server noarch 2.0.1-1 oscar_fc-8-i386 3.9 k >> opkg-openmpi-server noarch 1.2.4-1 oscar_fc-8-i386 2.1 k >> opkg-opium-server noarch 1.6-2 oscar_fc-8-i386 2.1 k >> opkg-pvm-server noarch 3.4.5+6-3 oscar_fc-8-i386 2.2 k >> opkg-torque-server noarch 2.1.8-2 oscar_fc-8-i386 4.2 k >> Installing for dependencies: >> ganglia-gmetad i686 3.0.6-1 oscar_fc-8-i386 84 k >> ganglia-gmetad i386 3.0.5-1.fc8 i386_os 85 k >> ganglia-gmond i686 3.0.6-1 oscar_fc-8-i386 214 k >> ganglia-web i386 3.0.5-1.fc8 i386_os 118 k >> lam-oscar i686 7.1.4-1 oscar_fc-8-i386 3.6 M >> lam-oscar-modulefile noarch 7.1.4-1 oscar_common-rpms 8.7 k >> lam-switcher-modulefile noarch 7.1.4-2.oscar oscar_common-rpms 7.6 >> k >> libaio i386 0.3.106-3.2 i386_os 19 k >> libaio-devel i386 0.3.106-3.2 i386_os 11 k >> maui-oscar i686 3.2.6p19-8 oscar_fc-8-i386 1.7 M >> netbootmgr noarch 1.7-1 oscar_common-rpms 60 k >> openmpi i686 1.2.4-1 oscar_fc-8-i386 5.2 M >> openmpi-switcher-modulefile noarch 1.2.4-1 oscar_common-rpms >> 7.0 k >> php-gd i386 5.2.4-3 distro_fedora-8-i386 >> 111 k >> pvm i686 3.4.5+6-2 oscar_fc-8-i386 2.6 M >> pvm-modules-oscar i686 3.4.5+6-2 oscar_fc-8-i386 6.8 k >> rrdtool i386 1.3-0.1.beta1.fc8 i386_os 390 >> k >> ssh-oscar noarch 1.1-6 oscar_common-rpms 3.6 k >> tcsh i386 6.15-1.fc8 i386_os 468 k >> tk i386 1:8.4.15-5.fc8 distro_fedora-8-i386 >> 1.2 M >> torque i686 2.1.8-3oscar oscar_fc-8-i386 21 k >> torque-client i686 2.1.8-3oscar oscar_fc-8-i386 174 k >> torque-gui i686 2.1.8-3oscar oscar_fc-8-i386 240 k >> torque-modulefile noarch 2.1.8-3oscar oscar_common-rpms 2.5 k >> torque-mom i686 2.1.8-3oscar oscar_fc-8-i386 105 k >> torque-server i686 2.1.8-3oscar oscar_fc-8-i386 106 k >> >> Transaction Summary >> ============================================================================= >> Install 37 Package(s) >> Update 0 Package(s) >> Remove 0 Package(s) >> >> Total download size: 17 M >> Downloading Packages: >> (2/37): tcsh-6.15-1.fc8.i 100% |=========================| 468 kB 00:00 >> (4/37): libaio-devel-0.3. 100% |=========================| 11 kB 00:00 >> (10/37): ganglia-gmetad-3 100% |=========================| 85 kB 00:00 >> (19/37): rrdtool-1.3-0.1. 100% |=========================| 390 kB 00:00 >> (23/37): ganglia-web-3.0. 100% |=========================| 118 kB 00:00 >> (28/37): libaio-0.3.106-3 100% |=========================| 19 kB 00:00 >> Running rpm_check_debug >> ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: >> Package ganglia-web needs ganglia-gmetad = 3.0.5-1.fc8, this is not >> available. >> Complete! >> >> ------------------------------------------------ >> >> As you can see, even though some packages (or most packages) could not be >> installed because of the dependencies, the process of the Step 3 "Install >> OSCAR Server" passed. >> That made me believe that all the OSCAR server packages are fully >> installed/configured. But apparently not. >> >> FYI, I used the following .url file. >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /tftpboot/distro/fedora-8-i386.url >> file:/tftpboot/distro/fedora-8-i386 >> http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/fedora/linux/releases/8/Everything/i386/os >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> - DongInn >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Oscar-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-devel >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. 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