[FGS] FGS Self-Installer & Dashes

[Normand Savard]

Alexander Dorsk wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>
> = The short =
>
> Packages that have dash characters (-) in their versions seem to cause
> self-installers to break.
>
> The cause seems to be in the /etc/fgs/lib/install.sh script of an installed fgs
> environment, in the line below:
>
>   ( cd $FILES_SRC ; ls -1 fgs-$MODULE_NAME-*-$FGS_PLATFORM.tar.gz 2>/dev/\
> null | tail -n 1 | cut -d '-' -f4 )
>
> Hopefully this will save other folks from source code spelunking.
>
>
> = The long =
>
> I recently downloaded fgs-dev and tried to build a self-installer which included
> ka-map and ImageMagick.  The default version strings for ka-map and ImagMagick
> were, respectively: "1.0-20070205" and "6.2.5-3" (note the dashes).
>
> When I later tried to include these modules in a self-installer I got an error
> like this: "Unable to find module for <MODULE_NAME> in /tmp/fgs-goobledgop".
>
> The module .tar files were in the tmp tar file created by the self-installer,
> but they were not being found by the installer script.
>
> It turned out that the dash in the version number was running into problems with
> this line in the 'get_last_module_version' function in /etc/fgs/lib/install.sh:
>
> ( cd $FILES_SRC ; ls -1 fgs-$MODULE_NAME-*-$FGS_PLATFORM.tar.gz 2>/dev/\
> null | tail -n 1 | cut -d '-' -f4 )
>
> The extra dash in the version string seems to throw off the 'cut' command, which
> is cutting on dashes.
>
> When I found this, naturally I said "Dash it all!".   Actually, what I said was
> more like @!!$%!@$#!@$#.
>
> I took the lazy man's fix and manually changed the version names of modules in
> the build.list file (and their associated .tar.gz files).  That seemed to fix
> the problem.  But it may be something to look into for future versions...
>
> Just wanted to pass the word.  I do love the fgs environment and appreciate all
> the hard work that you fgs'ers do for it.
>
> -Alex
>
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Alexander,

Thank you for reporting the issue.  I opened bug 1909 to keep track of it.

Norm

http://bugzilla.maptools.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1909