some try-ark suggestions

Jonathan:

More aha!

I missed this from my earlier attempt:

file doesn't exist: /usr/local/src/gzip-1.3.tar

Oh, okay, I have to gzip my /usr/local/src/gzip-1.3.tar.gz first (so, too,
with the other source packages).  I don't recall seeing that instruction.

On the other hand, shouldn't your code check to see if the source packages
are still gzip'ed, and if so, do the right thing?

Anyway, after doing a 'gzip -d' on the source packages in /usr/local/src,
I got better results.  Curiously, this came about from an attempted
'try-ark --scrub'!  (I'll spare you the output.)

Now I have:

[berto@localhost try-ark]$ find . -name gzip -print
./ark-builds/gzip--1.3/linux/gzip
./ark-install-linux/gzip--1.3/bin/gzip
./our/bin/gzip

[berto@localhost try-ark]$ ls -al our/bin/gzip
lrwxrwxrwx    1 berto    berto          63 Jun 11 18:19 our/bin/gzip -> /home/berto/ark/ark/try-ark/ark-deploy-host1/gzip--1.3/bin/gzip*

[berto@localhost try-ark]$ ls -l /home/berto/ark/ark/try-ark/ark-deploy-host1/g zip--1.3/bin/gzip
-rwxr-xr-x    3 berto    berto       93982 Jun 11 18:19 /home/berto/ark/ark/try-ark/ark-deploy-host1/gzip--1.3/bin/gzip*

I don't see, however, any rsync or any of the textutils stuff.  In the case
of textutils, it seems I might have a corrupted source package.  I can't yet
explain the absence of rsync.

So, very real progress!  But no nirvana yet.

So far, be sure to note:

--Amend the instructions to make clear about not leaving any superfluous
  host/slicker.xml file lying about.

--Amend the instructions to have the user make sure to unzip the source
  packages first, else have the code deal with it automatically.

  The instructions now say:

    Whatever packages you decide to build, you need to have the source
    tarballs for them.

  So I guess that *might* imply, since it doesn't say "compressed source
  tarballs," that one should unzip them first.

--Tell the user where to look after achieving an apparent successful
  try-ark run.

More later, maybe.

Berto

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Osterlund, Unix Systems Manager                [email protected]
Grad School of Business, U of Chicago                       phone: 773/702-8898
1101 E. 58th Street, #309, Chicago, IL 60637, USA             fax: 773/702-0233