[osiris-devel] Easier RPM Conversation

[Brian Wotring]

I think adding perl as a requirement to install an agent is not a good idea.

As far as the whole user detection/creation issue.  If you set 
PACKAGE_MODE, the installer will skip that whole section.  Is that not 
sufficient for the creation of your RPM?

David M. Fetter wrote:
> How about getpwnam instead of cat and grep?  I see your install is a
> shell script though and this is a c function, though it also exists in
> perl.  Since most systems have perl installed you could just put a short
> perl statement within the install script using getpwnam.  That way you
> will find the user account no matter what method the system is using for
> account management.  (perl example:
> http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=p214/userinfo)
> 
> Another option might be to grep for passwd: in /etc/nsswitch.conf and if
> $1 is equal to files then look in /etc/passwd, if it's compat then do
> ypmatch username passwd, etc.  The perl way would do this work for you
> and be shorter to write, but by adding perl into the shell script you
> now have two dependencies for install.  Either way would fix the problem
> though.
> 
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 12:17, Brian Wotring wrote:
> 
>>To the first issue, see my recent post.
>>
>>As for the NIS user, yes, I believe some change is in order for the 
>>installer.  The installer has a minor bug in that it prompts for 
>>continuation after it has already tried to create or locate the osiris 
>>user/group.
>>
>>Suggestions for checking are welcome, but it seems like one easy 
>>solution would be to prompt for permission to create a local user or 
>>not.  Admins that have a userbase elsewhere could then opt out.
>>
>>David M. Fetter wrote:
>>
>>>I would like to suggest/comment on two things regarding the tarball.  
>>>
>>>1.  I think that while it's nice to have an rc script included with the
>>>tarball, it probably shouldn't be installed automatically.  Instead make
>>>it so the command "make install rc" be required to install them, but
>>>they won't install with just "make install" or "make install all".  The
>>>problem (and it's only minor because RPM continues on anyway) is that by
>>>doing this you get errors when trying to turn it into an rpm such as
>>>this:
>>>
>>>==> installing rc startup for daemon(s).
>>>./install.sh: /etc/init.d//osirisd.tmp: cannot create
>>>./install.sh: /etc/init.d//osirisd.tmp: cannot open
>>>/usr/local/bin/chmod: cannot access `/etc/init.d//osirisd': No such file
>>>or directory
>>>/usr/local/bin/rm: cannot lstat `/etc/init.d//osirisd.tmp': No such file
>>>or directory
>>>/usr/local/bin/ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/rc2.d//S95osirisd' to
>>>`/etc/init.d//osirisd': Permission denied
>>>./install.sh: /etc/init.d//osirismd.tmp: cannot create
>>>./install.sh: /etc/init.d//osirismd.tmp: cannot open
>>>/usr/local/bin/chmod: cannot access `/etc/init.d//osirismd': No such
>>>file or directory
>>>/usr/local/bin/rm: cannot lstat `/etc/init.d//osirismd.tmp': No such
>>>file or directory
>>>/usr/local/bin/ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/rc2.d//S95osirismd' to
>>>`/etc/init.d//osirismd': Permission denied
>>>==> Skipping permission setting.
>>>==> Skipping post install.
>>>
>>>2.  It seem that it doesn't detect the user specified if they are in
>>>NIS.  I would suspect the same is true for ldap.  What happens is that
>>>even though I have the generic user account existing in NIS, when
>>>installing osiris it doesn't see it and tries to create the account in
>>>the local files.  This should probably have better checking.
>>>
>>>Otherwise, we're quite pleased with this.  It is very simple and does
>>>what we need. Thanks.
>>>
>>>
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