Forum OpenACS Q&A: Package Manager Problem ?

Posted by Peter Alberer on 02/22/02 09:29 PM

I noticed a problem with the package manager in a recently downloaded, freshly installed OpenACS instance.

It seems that the dependency check is not working, as i cannot install any package that needs acs-messaging, templating ... Of course all of these packages get installed on first boot.

As this problem is a very prominent one probably someone has found an easy cure for it ?

TIA

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Posted by Don Baccus on 02/22/02 09:32 PM

I'll be doing test installs over the next couple of days (before cutting a beta tarball) so I'll definitely be taking a look. But ... I've been installing recent cuts from CVS frequently over the past two weeks, so if it's been broken it's been broken very, very recently.

Which RDBMS - Oracle or PG - are you using?

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Posted by Peter Alberer on 02/22/02 09:36 PM

I tried a nightly-tarball last week and some minutes ago i downloaded yesterdays tarball. Both had the same problem. The database i am using is postgres.

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Posted by C. R. Oldham on 02/22/02 09:37 PM

Don,

I've also run into a couple of situations where the installer gets stuck in an infinite loop after the "Loading Package Info Files" screen--just after you click "Next".

Sorry I don't have more info for you.

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Posted by Don Baccus on 02/22/02 09:42 PM

Thanks, Peter ... I've been working mostly with the Oracle version recently. I'll try a sample install of the PG version.

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Posted by Don Baccus on 02/22/02 10:16 PM

I just installed from CVS and bboard installs without a hitch, and requires acs-messaging ...

So ... first guess is that our nightly tarballs are hosed again (damn).

Can you tell me a specific package that fails? I'll try that with my CVS-derived version.

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Posted by Peter Alberer on 02/22/02 10:27 PM

Well, general-comments for example complained about the missing acs-messaging. And the glossary package complained about missing acs-templating.

I will try to get the files via CVS and try that way.

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Posted by Don Baccus on 02/22/02 10:55 PM

OK, I'm fairly convinced that (sigh) nightly tarballs are (sigh) fsck'd up again (sigh). You need to install general comments to install bboard so ... so ... sigh.

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Posted by Peter Alberer on 02/22/02 10:55 PM

<p>I tried the CVS version now and had the same problem.
<ul><li> Clean Install (new db)
<li> Install Package
<li> General Comments does not install (Requires acs-messaging of version >= 4.0)
</ul>
<p>Too bad !
<p>A quick look into the error-log did not reveal any problems there. The install worked perfectly so far. I am using Aolserver 3.3+ad13 with Postgresql 7.1.3.

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Posted by Peter Alberer on 02/22/02 11:44 PM

After some playing around i think the problem is on my side:

select apm_package_version__version_name_greater('4.0.1', '4.0'); returns -1.

Could this be a problem with a wrong collation order or something like that ?

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Posted by Peter Alberer on 02/23/02 12:20 AM

The ugly, dirty hack to change the service version of acs-messanging to 4.1 removed the problem -> So I do not think that the nightly tarball has problems.

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Posted by Don Baccus on 02/23/02 02:48 AM

Oh, it is that bleeping charset problem, then. *bleep*. Please add this as a bug to the SDM if it's not there already. We need to do something about this but I'm not quite how to fix it.

Brilliant suggestions eagerly accepted ...

I am *really* glad to hear it doesn't appear to be a problem with nightly tarballs because I really did think they were working.