672096 - CENTOS.txt incorrect and missing information

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Cloud Services Graveyard :: Server: Sync, defect)

Description

[Michael Ulmen]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/5.0
Build ID: 20110615151330

Steps to reproduce:

Followed the instructions for building Firefox Sync at http://docs.services.mozilla.com/howtos/run-sync.html and read the included CENTOS.txt with the latest build version.


Actual results:

The list of required rpms lists a package that does not exist and several that are only available through EPEL for CentOS 5.  The version of CentOS is also not explicitly stated.


Expected results:

The CentOS version and the requirement to add EPEL should be stated in CENTOS.txt.  The EPEL packages that are needed are python26 and python26-devel.  The python26-setuptools package does not exist in EPEL but according to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=574506 it appears the package is called python26-distribute in EPEL 5.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Moving to server component per triage.

Comment 2

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

Attachment: revised CENTOS.txt

I have tried to tweak the CENTOS.txt file with your suggestions, can you please take a look?

I haven't mentioned an explicit CentOS version since AFAICT if you're able to get the necessary packages, then the instructions should be the same on any version.

Comment 3

[Ryan Kelly [:rfkelly]]

Generic rpm packaging will not be supported for sync1.5, closing this out as stale

Comment 4

[James Bonacci [:jbonacci]]

Yep.