Redux: CentOS 5 RPMs

Well after Helmuth reminded me of the CentOS installation guide I took
the time to give it a try. Works quite well.

I still have a few packages missing and can’t seem to figure out why
there are problems.

Net::Server goes away while running tests and one perl process goes
(I’m watching with top) at this point

t/Server_BASE.t … 6/6 _

two others (perl processes) just sit there but don’t use any resources.

This is a Linux-Vserver guest so I suspect it might be a capabilities
issue but if anyone has run into a same/similar thing please let me know
so I can hunt in the right place.
Once I figure this out I’m sure Net::Server::PreFork will install.

The packages are Calendar::Simple and XML::RSS neither of which will
install. I have more research to do on these but again if anyone has
run into same/similar I’d appreciate any hints.

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Rod

Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

Well after Helmuth reminded me of the CentOS installation guide I took
the time to give it a try. Works quite well.

I still have a few packages missing and can’t seem to figure out why
there are problems.

Net::Server goes away while running tests and one perl process goes
(I’m watching with top) at this point

t/Server_BASE.t … 6/6 _

two others (perl processes) just sit there but don’t use any resources.

This is a Linux-Vserver guest so I suspect it might be a capabilities
issue but if anyone has run into a same/similar thing please let me know
so I can hunt in the right place.
Once I figure this out I’m sure Net::Server::PreFork will install.

The packages are Calendar::Simple and XML::RSS neither of which will
install. I have more research to do on these but again if anyone has
run into same/similar I’d appreciate any hints.

Quick update. The problem children were all available via yum.

perl-Calendar-Simple
perl-Net-Server

gets me no MISSING packages.

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Rod

For XML::RSS try install the expat packages from yum. IIRC, the default
XML processor on Centos 5 is not expat, and some of the perl libraries
don’t like that much…

Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

Well after Helmuth reminded me of the CentOS installation guide I took
the time to give it a try. Works quite well.

I still have a few packages missing and can’t seem to figure out why
there are problems.

Net::Server goes away while running tests and one perl process goes
(I’m watching with top) at this point

t/Server_BASE.t … 6/6 _

two others (perl processes) just sit there but don’t use any resources.

This is a Linux-Vserver guest so I suspect it might be a capabilities
issue but if anyone has run into a same/similar thing please let me know
so I can hunt in the right place.
Once I figure this out I’m sure Net::Server::PreFork will install.

The packages are Calendar::Simple and XML::RSS neither of which will
install. I have more research to do on these but again if anyone has
run into same/similar I’d appreciate any hints.

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Rod

Matthew Isaacs
Systems Engineer
Wolfram Research, Inc.
1-217-398-0700 x3311

Additionally, I’ve found that if you have version issues, just rebuild the
SRPM for the package with the newer module put in site_perl instead of
vendor_perl and version the package name in some way (much like library
versioning), so as to not cause issues with upstream versions from RHEL or
CentOS’ main repos.On 6/23/09 11:19 AM, “Roderick A. Anderson” raanders@cyber-office.net wrote:

Roderick A. Anderson wrote:

Well after Helmuth reminded me of the CentOS installation guide I took
the time to give it a try. Works quite well.

I still have a few packages missing and can’t seem to figure out why
there are problems.

Net::Server goes away while running tests and one perl process goes
(I’m watching with top) at this point

t/Server_BASE.t … 6/6 _

two others (perl processes) just sit there but don’t use any resources.

This is a Linux-Vserver guest so I suspect it might be a capabilities
issue but if anyone has run into a same/similar thing please let me know
so I can hunt in the right place.
Once I figure this out I’m sure Net::Server::PreFork will install.

The packages are Calendar::Simple and XML::RSS neither of which will
install. I have more research to do on these but again if anyone has
run into same/similar I’d appreciate any hints.

Quick update. The problem children were all available via yum.

perl-Calendar-Simple
perl-Net-Server

gets me no MISSING packages.

\||/
Rod