Re: YP-Tools fails to install

On 8 April 2013 17:27, Egil Brendsdal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Jonas Neumann <gobolinux <at> tschanness.de> writes:
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>> Seems to me that it compiled correctly but fails whith the Sandbox files.
> Try "SymlinkProgram YP-Tools 2.8" and see if it works. A little longer log
> would be good too :)sC
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>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Egil Brendsdal <egilb <at> ife.no> wrote:
>> I recently discovered GoboLinux, and I find the method of organizing the
>> installed software particularly interesting. I'm currently 'playing around'
>> with GoboLinux in order to get familiar with. There are problems when
> installing
>> software due to dead web-links in the recipes, but one can live with that, the
>> latest GoboLinux is not brand new...
>> However, I did not manage to install YP-Tools:
>> # Compile yp-tools
>> (Skipping output from configure & make)
>> UnionSandbox: Cleaning up.
>> UnionSandbox: Moving entries to: /Programs/YP-Tools/2.8/.SandboxInstall_Root
>> SandboxInstall: Postprocessing Sandbox
>> SandboxInstall: Left over files:
>> System
>> System/Variable
>> System/Variable/yp
>> System/Variable/yp/nicknames
>> Compile: Installation step failed.
>> Does anyone know a work-around?
>> Regards, EB.
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> Jonas: Thank you for guiding me towards the SymlinkProgram program. By
> following your suggestion, it seems that the programs in YP-Tools all are
> installed/sym-linked correctly. There is, however, some flaw in a configuration
> script for YP-Tools, I guess: When trying e.g. "ypcat passwd", the error
> message is "nickname file /var/yp/nicknames does not exist", the same file
> as made "Compile" fail.

That file failed to install because of the sandbox. It should still be at
 /Programs/YP-Tools/2.8/.SandboxInstall_Root
You may want to take a look at that directory and move the files there
into their appropriate places.

Normally Compile should ask you about those files and offer to do this
automatically in case of shared files that have to live outside their
/Programs containers, such as /var/yp/nicknames, but looks like
there's a bug somewhere.

Hope that helps,

-- Hisham
http://hisham.hm/