[X2Go-Dev] nxagent dependency problem on CentOS and SL

[Daniel Gibbs]

Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel <at> das-netzwerkteam.de> writes:

> 
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> On So 10 Mär 2013 21:28:46 CET Daniel Gibbs wrote:
> 
> >>> [...]
> >> [...]
> 
> >> Looks like the build failed there, and the culprit is a known offender:
> >> broken debuginfo scripts part of ancient rpm releases.
> >>
> >> https://build.opensuse.org/package/live_build_log?arch=x86_64&package=nx-
> > libs&project=X11%3ARemoteDesktop%3Ax2go&repository=RHEL_6
> >>
> >
> > I cannot believe this has still not been fixed! Do the developers of x2go
> > realise
> > that no one can install x2goserver on RHEL x64 and it variants currently? 
Its
> > completely broken. I would of thought with an issue as serious as  
> > this that it
> > would be a number one priority. Almost 2 weeks and it has yet to be  
> > fixed. This
> > bug
> > makes this really good project look bad. Does anyone know if this is  
> > even being
> > dealt with? If its going to take time to fix then maybe a post on your front
> > page
> > making people aware the developers are sorting it out.
> > Thanks
> 
> May I suggest something?
> 
>  From what I have read in this thread, the problem is:
> 
>    o you want X2Go installable on RHEL
>    o the only person doing the RPMs does not have a machine with RHEL to test
>      his packages on
> 
> @Jan: would it make sense that Daniel provided you with a login on a  
> RHEL machine? Whould that help?
> 
> If so, can the two of you please get together?
> 
> @Daniel: some background info.
> 
> Unfortunately, the people coding X2Go (Alex, me, Heinz, Morty,  
> Reinhard, Arw, ...) tend to run on Debian (or Ubuntu) monoculture  
> sites, only. I personally changed over to .deb packaged distros more  
> than 10 years ago. On the other hand I have just become Debian  
> Developer, so that is the packaging style I focus on.
> 
> Thanks to Jan and his employer (who pays for it) we have RPM packages  
> for concurrent RPM-based distros. Note that Jan at the time of writing  
> rather is on the periphery of the project, simply providing the RPMs  
> and (very good) patches. The packaging is not so much an upstream  
> issue, as you might guess.
> 
> So, actually you are absolutely free (as an alternative) to package  
> for RHEL yourself and provide a download URL on our website. That is  
> one realm of possibilities. Another surely is to arrange with Jan to  
> cooperate on the RPM pacakges.
> 
> I understand that you want X2Go to be spread around the global and  
> also make it available on business Linux distros (like RHEL). Thanks  
> for that disposition and maybe there is a niche for you to help out in  
> our project.
> 
> light+love,
> Mike
> 

Thank you for the info Mike it is much appreciated. It has given me a good 
understanding on 
to how you guys work with the different distros. Also sorry if I caused upset. I 
am happy to 
help Jan out if he requires my help. I do not have RHEL but do have a CentOS 
server which is 
binary compatible so testing on that would work well.

My current understanding of the issue is as follows. 

nxagent-3.5.0.17-3.1.x86_64 is asking for a dependency that is only available on 
OpenSuse 
which is xorg-x11-fonts-core. I believe this issue was resolved however when the 
rpm's 
attempted to be built it failed for some reason. Because of this the rpm's in 
the repo for 
RHEL_6 have not updated.

I believe this is the current error:

[  669s] RPM build errors:
[  669s]     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.tWnA7V (%install)

I have tried to install other version of nxagent from fedora 17 and 18 just in 
case this 
would work with no success.

I am not sure if me giving Jan access to a server would help in this case. But I 
am happy to 
do this if it would help. A recommendation for Jan if he doesn't have any access 
to an RHEL 
system might be to use something like Virtualbox and create a CentOS Virtual 
Machine. This 
will make it very easy to test x2go on RHEL based systems.

@Jan Please feel free to email me if I can be of any assistance. Thank you