We should really go through most packages and remove code which
explicitly points to distros that we no longer support.

Currently supported Red Hat distros are RH9 and FC2...

Cheers,

Bernard 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 
> Jeff Squyres
> Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2005 14:32
> To: OSCAR users
> Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Installing OSCAR 4.0 on RHEL ES 3
> 
> This looks like a bit rot issue.
> 
> I haven't been following this thread -- what distro is being 
> used here?
> 
> Apparently in switcher's setup script, it's falling back to 
> look for RPMs in the distro/rh72 directory, but switcher 
> doesn't have a
> distro/rh72 directory (hence the error).
> 
> Here's the code:
> 
>    2006   jsquyres if ($name eq "redhat") {
>    2006   jsquyres   $source_dir .= "rh";
>    2006   jsquyres   if ($ver eq "8.0") {
>    2006   jsquyres     $source_dir .= "80";
>    2032   jsquyres   } elsif ($ver eq "9") {
>    2006   jsquyres     $source_dir .= "90";
>    2649   bligneri   } elsif ($ver eq "3as") {
>    2649   bligneri     $source_dir .= "3as";
>    2649   bligneri   }
>    2649   bligneri   else {
>    2649   bligneri     $source_dir .= "72";
>    2649   bligneri   }
> ...
> 
> I'm guessing that someone removed the rh72 directory and the 
> code was not changed to match.
> 
> An obvious workaround is to change the "$source_dir .= "72"" 
> line to be something that works on the distro that is being 
> used here -- but I'm curious as to what supported distro 
> falls through to this condition in the code...
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 27, 2005, at 7:45 AM, David R. James III wrote:
> 
> > David,
> >     I decided to start over from scratch.  I re downloaded 
> the oscar4.0 
> > tar ball and unziped it in root's home directory.  I then 
> moved into 
> > the oscar-4.0 and configured it with ./configure.  Once 
> this was done, 
> > I installed it with make install.  I then moved to 
> /opt/oscar and ran 
> > ./install_cluster eth0.  This runs through fine until it 
> gets to the 
> > setup for switcher.  This is the error I am getting:
> >
> > --> About to run /opt/oscar/packages/switcher/scripts/setup for
> > switcher
> > /opt/oscar/packages/switcher/distro/rh72 does not exist at 
> > /opt/oscar/packages/switcher/scripts/setup line 58 Using 
> modules RPMs 
> > from: /opt/oscar/packages/switcher/distro/rh72
> > Script /opt/oscar/packages/switcher/scripts/setup exitted 
> badly with 
> > exit code '255' at ./wizard_prep line 187 Failed running 
> setup script 
> > for switcher at ./wizard_prep line 187 Oscar Wizard 
> preparation script 
> > failed to complete at ./install_cluster line 215.
> >
> > This is the same error I received last time.  I have also 
> attached the 
> > install log so you can look at that as well.  Any tips 
> would be great.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
> > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 00:51, Lombard, David N wrote:
> >> David,
> >>
> >> Something's *really* wrong there.
> >>
> >> This is the process to install
> >>    d/l oscar-4.0.tar.gz
> >>    cd /opt
> >>    tar xfz oscar-4.0.tar.gz
> >>    cd oscar-4.0
> >>    ./configure
> >>    make install
> >>    cd /opt/oscar
> >>
> >> Then, to start the OSCAR wizard,
> >>
> >>    ./install_cluster ethX
> >>
> >> where "ethX" is the cluster-private device, e.g., eth1
> >>
> >> Is that what you did?  If so, could you verify the md5sums on the 
> >> tarball?
> > --
> > David James
> > Morris Digital Works
> > System Administrator
> > 706-828-4325
> > <oscarinstall.log>
> 
> --
> {+} Jeff Squyres
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> 
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