[Linux-HA] Building Heartbeat on CentOS 4 (RHEL 4)

[Horms]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 04:09:17PM -0700, Alan Robertson wrote:
> Doug Farrington wrote:
> >So I've been having some problems getting this to build.  I had to 
> >disable the snmp-subagent in order to get it to compile.  Then I had a 
> >whole bunch of dependencies to resolve in order to get ldirectord to 
> >install.  A lot of the perl RPMS I found I had to force to install.  I 
> >realize that this might be a question for the CentOS folks, but I was 
> >just curious if anyone has gotten Heartbeat to install cleanly on CentOS 
> >4 or RHEL 4.
> 
> 
> Horms has done lots of things with RH.  Maybe he's done this (?).

No, not yet. And probably not in the immediate future.

> Finding all the dependencies for the SNMP agent is often problematic. 
> Unfortunately, it's due to the architecture of the SNMP package - not our 
> piece of it.  Red Hat (and SUSE for that matter) could have solved this by 
> having all the real dependencies for the net-snmp-devel package declared 
> correctly.  Then everything you need to build something on top of 
> net-snmp-devel would already be installed by virtue of the RPM dependencies.
> 
> You don't need the ldirectord piece unless you're building an LVS load 
> balancer.  I know he has all the RPMs for these Perl pieces.

He probably means me, and yes, all the dependancies for RHEL3 are
on ultramonkey.org/download/. This should suffice for RHEL4 as well.
Though as Alan mentioned, you probably don't need ldirectord at all.

-- 
Horms