Current 1.0: success on Solaris 8..

Hello everyone,

	It took me more time that I would have liked but I am happy to
report that I have a current server working fine from a Solaris 8 (sparc)
server.. In my case, the server which used to collect all of the Redhat
updates is a SUN server with their NFS implementation.. Therefore, the
idea was to try to figure out if it would be possible to run a current
server on that box.. The most difficult task was clearly to get all of
current's software requirements to function properly on Solaris 8 (to name
some of them: python (with bsddb), rpm, db-3.1, etc..).

Only problems that I encountered are:

1) In current.init, the invocation of stunnel is wrong (I think):
        daemon stunnel -d $CURRENT_HTTPS_PORT \
                       -r $CURRENT_HTTP_PORT \
                       -p $CURRENT_KEY_FILE \
                       -P /var/run/stunnel.pid

Should be:
        daemon stunnel -d $CURRENT_HTTPS_PORT \
                       -r $CURRENT_HTTP_PORT \
                       -p $CURRENT_KEY_FILE \
                       -P /var/run/

This gives me a pid file named: /var/run/stunnel.8080.pid

2) Perhaps a Python-2.2 vs. current-1.0 problem but rebuilding a DB has a
minor display glitch:

Mar %2m 13:12:48 Adding kernel-enterprise-2.2.19-6.2.12.sparc64.rpm
Mar %2m 13:12:48 Removing kernel-enterprise-2.2.19-6.2.15.sparc.rpm
Mar %2m 13:12:49 Adding kernel-smp-2.2.19-6.2.12.sparc64.rpm
    ^
    \---(see "Mar %2m" instead of "Mar 17"...)

Whole procedure In short:

1) db-3.1.  BerkeleyDB.3.1 compiled fine on this box and I accepted the
default of installing under /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.1/{lib,include}.

Build script:
root@ergoth:[/usr/local/src ]cat db-3.1.17/build_unix/go.sh
#!/bin/csh
# Solaris 8 : SUN compiled gcc (/opt/sfw)
setenv CFLAGS "-pipe -O3"
setenv CC /opt/sfw/bin/gcc
setenv CXX /opt/sfw/bin/g++
#../dist/configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-cxx --enable-dynamic \
../dist/configure --enable-cxx --enable-dynamic \
        --enable-static --enable-shared --enable-compat185

2) Python. I had to use python-2.2 in order to get the bsddb module to
build correctly (I will report to the python lists later on). And even
then, the module wouldn't import correctly. I had to link it manually. The
problem mostly came from the Modules build that python does once the
engine is built.. That Modules build discarded my CFLAGS and LDFLAGS..
Since I didn't want to mess with the Python setup.py and Makefile.pre.in
files, I had to compile and link manually the bsddb module.

Build script:
#!/bin/csh
# Solaris 8 : SUN compiled gcc (/opt/sfw)
setenv CFLAGS "-pipe -O3"
setenv CC /opt/sfw/bin/gcc
setenv CXX /opt/sfw/bin/g++
setenv PATH /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.1/bin:${PATH}
setenv CFLAGS '-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.1/include'
setenv CPPFLAGS '-I/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.1/include'
setenv LIBS '-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.1/lib'
setenv LDFLAGS '-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.1/lib'
setenv BASEMODLIBS '-L/usr/local/BerkeleyDB.3.1/lib'
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-ipv6

3) RPM. Having not much success with rpm-4.0.2, I decided to use
rpm-4.0.4. Even with the "--with-python" argument, the build process
decided not to build the Python module (poptmodule* and rpmmodule*). As
with python, instead of fixing configure.in (because I didn't have enough
time), I built that manually. Also, I had to fix
rpm-4.0.4/lib/signature.c:

root@ergoth:[/usr/local/src/rpm-4.0.4/lib ]/usr/local/bin/diff -c
signature.c.orig signature.c
*** signature.c.orig    Sat Feb  2 21:55:49 2002
--- signature.c Fri Mar 15 20:07:36 2002
***************
*** 23,28 ****
--- 23,32 ----
  #include "signature.h"
  #include "debug.h"

+ #ifndef HAVE_ENVIRON_DECL
+ extern char **environ;
+ #endif
+
  /*@access Header@*/           /* XXX compared with NULL */
  /*@access FD_t@*/             /* XXX compared with NULL */

Build script:
#!/bin/csh
# Solaris 8 : SUN compiled gcc (/opt/sfw)
setenv CFLAGS "-pipe -O3"
setenv CC /opt/sfw/bin/gcc
setenv CXX /opt/sfw/bin/g++
setenv CPPFLAGS '-I/usr/local/include/python2.2'
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-included-gettext --with-python \
--disable-nls

4) popt-1.6.4:
Nothing to report, Build script:
#!/bin/csh
# Solaris 8 : SUN compiled gcc (/opt/sfw)
setenv CFLAGS "-pipe -O3"
setenv CC /opt/sfw/bin/gcc
setenv CXX /opt/sfw/bin/g++
setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:${PATH}
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --disable-nls --with-included-gettext

5) stunnel-3.22:
Nothing to report, Build script:
#!/bin/csh
# Solaris 8 : SUN compiled gcc (/opt/sfw)
setenv CFLAGS "-pipe -O3"
setenv CC /opt/sfw/bin/gcc
setenv CXX /opt/sfw/bin/g++
./configure --prefix=/usr/local

(I already had openssl under /usr/local/include/ssl and
/usr/local/lib/libcryp*). For reference, build script for openssl:

#!/bin/csh
# Solaris 8 : SUN compiled gcc (/opt/sfw)
setenv CFLAGS "-pipe -O3"
setenv CC /opt/sfw/bin/gcc
setenv CXX /opt/sfw/bin/g++
./Configure solaris-sparcv8-gcc shared=solaris-shared --prefix=/usr/local \
        --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl

6) Current-1.0:
Nothing to report:
gmake, gmake install

I just patched sucessfully a RedHat-6.2 (sparc64) machine from my Solaris8
(sparc) server.. Here is the startup script I used (taken from current,
adapted to Solaris 8).

root@ergoth:[/usr/local/src/current-1.0 ]cat /etc/init.d/current
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#!/bin/bash
#
# current:     Starts the up2date server Current
#
# Author:      Hunter Matthews
#
# chkconfig: - 02 96
# description: Current is an open source server for Red Hat up2date clients.
# config: /etc/current/current.conf

# Grab the port numbers and pem file location from the current.conf file
# CURRENT_HTTP_PORT, CURRENT_HTTPS_PORT, CURRENT_KEY_FILE
#eval $(cadmin initconfig)
export CURRENT_HTTP_PORT=8080
export CURRENT_HTTPS_PORT=8081
export CURRENT_KEY_FILE=/etc/current/current.pem

start() {
    # FIXME: We should start this as current_stunnel or some such, otherwise
    # we can't stop _just_ stunnel - we'll kill them all.

    echo -n "Starting Current(stunnel): "
        /usr/local/sbin/stunnel -d $CURRENT_HTTPS_PORT \
                       -r $CURRENT_HTTP_PORT \
                       -p $CURRENT_KEY_FILE \
                       -P /var/run/
        echo -n "Starting Current(daemon): "
        /usr/local/sbin/current
}

stop() {
        echo -n "Stopping Current(stunnel): "
        /bin/pkill -f /usr/local/sbin/stunnel
        echo -n "Stopping Current(daemon): "
        /bin/pkill -f /usr/local/sbin/current
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
  start)
        start
        ;;
  stop)
        stop
        ;;
  restart)
        stop
        start
        ;;
  *)
        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac
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I hope it helps others who can't run "current" under Linux alone..

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