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[etch-users] Getting Started on Debian Squeeze

[Alex Y. <al...@by...>]

Hi there,

Is etch-3.19.0 known to work on Debian Squeeze?  I ask because the 
Getting Started instructions seem a little broken.

It would seem that ruby1.8 is no longer supported - String#oct doesn't 
exist in 1.8, for instance.  This means that on Squeeze, we need to use 
the ruby1.9.1 package.  `apt-get install facter` only installs the 
library for 1.8, which means we have to use rubygems.  Using 
rubygems-1.8.7.tgz from rubygems.org, I can install facter-1.6.5 and run:

   $ ./etch --generate-all --interactive --local ../etchserver-demo

but it spews a couple of screens'-worth of warnings before quitting with:

   W, [2012-02-28T12:00:19.151350 #24223]  WARN -- : No entry found for 
node <my-hostname> in nodes.xml
   No such file or directory

and a failure exit code.  I don't know if that's a sign that I've missed 
a step somewhere, or if that's actually intended behaviour, or what.  No 
files get created in /tmp, although /var/etch does get built.

Any guidance gratefully received.  Thanks,
-- 
Alex

Re: [etch-users] Getting Started on Debian Squeeze

[Jason H. <jh...@ap...>]

Known to work on Debian Squeeze?  Not that I know of.  But it should work.

String#oct certainly does exist in ruby 1.8.  In fact I'd hazard that it's been in ruby since the earliest days since it's a pretty direct carryover from perl.

jheiss@sleet:~/projects/etch/trunk> irb
1.8.7 :001 > RUBY_VERSION
 => "1.8.7" 
1.8.7 :002 > '10'.oct
 => 8 

I just ran the etch test suite under ruby 1.8.7 (on a CentOS 5 box) and it ran fine.  Did you see an error related to String#oct?

With the error you posted below it's not clear what went wrong.  The warning is just that, nothing fatal.  I'm not sure where the "No such file or directory" came from.  I suggest running with --debug and see if that helps, or send us the output and maybe we'll spot something.

Jason

On Feb 28, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Alex Young wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Is etch-3.19.0 known to work on Debian Squeeze?  I ask because the 
> Getting Started instructions seem a little broken.
> 
> It would seem that ruby1.8 is no longer supported - String#oct doesn't 
> exist in 1.8, for instance.  This means that on Squeeze, we need to use 
> the ruby1.9.1 package.  `apt-get install facter` only installs the 
> library for 1.8, which means we have to use rubygems.  Using 
> rubygems-1.8.7.tgz from rubygems.org, I can install facter-1.6.5 and run:
> 
>   $ ./etch --generate-all --interactive --local ../etchserver-demo
> 
> but it spews a couple of screens'-worth of warnings before quitting with:
> 
>   W, [2012-02-28T12:00:19.151350 #24223]  WARN -- : No entry found for 
> node <my-hostname> in nodes.xml
>   No such file or directory
> 
> and a failure exit code.  I don't know if that's a sign that I've missed 
> a step somewhere, or if that's actually intended behaviour, or what.  No 
> files get created in /tmp, although /var/etch does get built.
> 
> Any guidance gratefully received.  Thanks,
> -- 
> Alex
> 
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