[Fwd: [hercules-390] Re: Hercules Issues with Fedora 11 S390X]

[Dan Horák]

Harold Grovesteen píše v Pá 11. 12. 2009 v 10:26 -0600: 
> This was posted on the Hercules list by a fairly frustrated Hercules 
> user.  Can anyone shed some light?

I have already seen it on the Hercules list and I will send a reply
after processing the issues mentioned in the mail


Dan

> Thanks,
> Harold Grovesteen
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	[hercules-390] Re: Hercules Issues with Fedora 11 S390X
> Date: 	Fri, 11 Dec 2009 15:39:24 -0000
> From: 	halfmeg <opplr at hotmail.com>
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> 
> 
> > Dan Horák wrote:
> 
> > > halfmeg wrote:
> 
> ><snip>
> 
> > > So you may be absolutely correct.  If you run Fedora Linux,
> > > install Hercules via their RPM instead of generic compile from
> > > source on any Linux host it may work without difficulty.
> 
> > Yes, the script expects that you run Fedora/s390x in Hercules
> > packaged in Fedora or in EPEL for RHEL/CentOS, for running on other
> > distros it can serve as an inspiration.
> 
> Sorry, after tinkering with this for several days now, I am not only not inspired, I am abandoning it altogether.  Not the script but the distribution.
> 
> It may be that the s390x version isn't supported as well as the other architectures or that the need to update x package several times before 'support' for previous release of the distro is 'officially' discontinued.
> 
> There is or was a rpm-4.7.1-1 which according to the Upgrading Fedora web site:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq
> 
> "All Fedora 12 RPM packages use XZ/LZMA compression, which is only supported by the rpm-4.7.1-1 update (or later) for Fedora 11. Before upgrading from Fedora 11, run yum update rpm."
> 
> I did that last portion there, 'yum update rpm', and wound up in a catch-22 situation.  Can't update rpm because it can't deal with the XZ compression.
> 
> A 'yum list available rpm-4*' results in only rpm-4.7.1-4.fc12 being available.
> 
> So much for installing FTP which is the only thing I wanted anyway.
> 
> Reading the archive of the Fedora mailing list I spot where someone used SFTP to get a file into the system.  Yeah, yahoo, huraahh!!
> 
> I download MVSDASD's tarball, get it on the Fedora environment, looks good so far.  Untar it, wow, moving along nicely.  Read the INSTALL file.  Create a symlink for the kernal source directory to /usr/src/linux as MVSDASD uses that directory to access kernel headers.  Enter './configure' and get that is can't find css.h in cio directory.  Hmmm, all the kernel source directories are basically empty.  Ok, kernel headers for 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.s390x probably weren't compressed with XZ, they should not be a problem to install via yum.
> 
> Enter 'yum list available kernel-headers' and receive back that 2.6.31-0.174.rc7.git2.fc12 is the only one available.  Since the kernel that is running is 2.6.29.5-191.fc11.s390x, the kernel-headers package isn't going to help any.
> 
> According to Fedora, F11 is supported until 1 month after F13 is released.  Attempting to add or update something to it shouldn't be this difficult.  The right stuff may be available somewhere but I don't know how to modify yum repository info or even find if a s390x version has been uploaded to a repository.  The RPM page for 4.7.1-1 shows several for various cpus, but none for s390x.
> 
> I know this is something of a departure from a purely Hercules related topic and that my frustration with what should work or be available has come to the fore in some of the posts.
> 
> Please accept my apology for the diversion.
> 
> Phil
> 
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