[Users] rhev-guest for el5 and el5 derived

[Andrew Cathrow]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathanaël Blanchet" <blanchet at abes.fr>
> To: users at ovirt.org
> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2012 3:41:14 PM
> Subject: [Users] rhev-guest for el5 and el5 derived
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I need to make rhev-agent work mainly on centos 5. For centos 6 it's
> easy, because we can directly find SRPMS on redhat ftp.
> So I tried many ways to build it on my own:
> 
> 
>     1. git clone git://gerrit.ovirt.org/ovirt-guest-agent and
>     ./autogen.sh. It claims "Autoconf version 2.63 or higher is
>     required" but rhel 5 autoconf version is 2.59"
>     2. rpm -bb ovirt-guest-agent.spec.The issue is that I'm running
>     i386 instead of an expected i686. If I change this required
>     value in the SPEC file by doing "ExclusiveArch: i686 x86_64 i386
>     ", it complains then : "Group field must be present in the
>     package: ovirt-guest-agent-pam-module".
> 
> 
> I'm stuck in any ways, It's a pity that rhel5x is the most used rhel
> system...

This came up on IRC earlier today. We realized that the SRPM for this package was on RHN but not on the FTP site, so we fixed it

http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/5Server/en/RHEV/SRPMS/rhev-agent-2.3.16-3.el5.src.rpm


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