[Meego-distribution-tools] mic2 dependencies (2)

[Ed Bartosh]

Let's forget about mic2. I can say a lot of bad things about it, but I think
it doesn't make much sense as we're going to mic.

I'll send some feedback for mic soon. Stay tuned :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jian-feng Ding [mailto:jian-feng.ding at intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 12:26 PM
> To: Ed Bartosh
> Cc: meego-distribution-tools at lists.meego.com
> Subject: Re: [Meego-distribution-tools] mic2 dependencies (2)
> 
> The "python-urlgrabber" package should be required by "pykickstart"
> package, which
> is required by mic2 directly. After installing mic2 in bootstrap chroot
> env (yes,
> mic2 in the pkglist), the python-urlgrabber should be installed too.
> Please confirm
> it again.
> 
> But for the openssl issue, it is another story. The latest python-
> urlgrabber pkg
> is not a pure python programs any more, but a wrapper of
> pycurl/libcurl, which will
> use libssl for https links. But the openssl pkg in MeeGo has
> compatibility problem
> with openSUSE11.4, which cause the library cannot work in chroot env
> inside it.
> 
> There's a workaround method, try to force mic2 to run in native mode.
> You need
> to modify the code a little. I know you can find how to do quickly:)
> 
> Anyway, the old mic2 will be replaced by a new written tool, named
> "mic", which
> will be much better. As Kevin have told you, you can have a try by
> using the pkgs
> in devel:tools:building project of MeeGo obs.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> - jf.ding
> 
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 04:44:01PM +0800, Ed Bartosh wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm trying to get mic2 working on my OpenSUSE 11.4 system.
> Surprisingly it
> > took much longer than I expected. It looks like I didn't get the idea
> behind
> > it and doing something wrong.
> >
> > When I run it first time it crashed because python-urlgrabber was not
> > installed. After reading this
> > http://wiki.meego.com/Image_Creation#python_related_issues I got
> confused.
> > Urlgrabber was never shipped with python and has nothing to do with
> the way
> > how python is built. Correct me if I'm wrong but the reason for this
> crash
> > as I can see it is that mic2 uses Urlgrabber inside bootstrap chroot,
> but
> > package mic2 doesn't depend on python-urlgrabber.
> >
> > Then I looked at bootstrap.py code and realized that it has hardcoded
> list
> > of packages inside it !!! I added python-urlgrabber to that list and
> got
> > next traceback about pycurl. After adding pycurl next error came:
> > 'libcrypto.so.10: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > directory'. OK, added ssl to the list and it crashed because libidn
> is not
> > there. At that point I realized that I'm going wrong way. Can you
> explain me
> > what's the right one?
> >
> > PS: I used several versions of the package and they all crashed more
> or less
> > similar way. Now I'm using the latest code from git at
> > https://meego.gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/image-creator
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ed
> >
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