From non-working to working debs

From non-working to working debs
	Repackaging the SuSE NovFS system for Ubuntu

We create /etc/slp.conf:

net.slp.useScopes = rug_slp_global
net.slp.DAAddresses = 129.125.50.167,129.125.50.168

net.slp.passiveDADetection = false
net.slp.activeDADetection = false

Installing the debs
We install all debs and run the test command
sudo apt-get install nici novell-client novell-client-script novell-filesystem novell-nmasclient novell-novfsd novell-qtgui novell-ui-base novell-xplatlib novell-xtier-base novell-xtier-core novell-xtier-xplat <Many lines of output skipped, including errors> /opt/novell/ncl/bin/nwlogin -c staff.rug.nl -t rug-tree -s 129.125.50.166 -u p217811 /opt/novell/ncl/bin/nwlogin: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.19.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Adding libbfd-2.19.so
Many of the NovFS executables need libbfd-2.19.so. That precise version is not available on out-of-the-box Intrepid, and the package with the version that is available (binutils-dev), states explicitly that no other package should depend on the shared library it provides. Furthermore, the NovFS packages rely heavily on their own libraries in /opt/novell/lib, so I figure one more such library won't hurt. In OpenSuSE, the binutils RPM happens to provide the library, so we work that RPM with alien too.
cd ~/novfs-hack/rpms wget http://osis.service.rug.nl/pub/os/linux/distr/opensuse/distribution/11.1/repo/oss/suse/i586/binutils-2.19-9.3.i586.rpm cd ../alienated mkdir binutils-2.19 ; cd binutils-2.19 fakeroot alien --to-deb -cgk ../../rpms/binutils-2.19-9.3.i586.rpm
Then we copy the desired lib to /opt/novell/lib and retry the test command:
sudo cp binutils-2.19/usr/lib/libbfd-2.19.so /opt/novell/lib/ sudo cp binutils-2.19/usr/lib/libopcodes-2.19.so /opt/novell/lib/ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/novell/lib/ /opt/novell/ncl/bin/nwlogin -c staff.rug.nl -t rug-tree -s 129.125.50.166 -u p217811 The novfs file system is present but not mounted correctly. For additional information, see 'Installation and Administration Guide' in the Novell Client for Linux documentation.
Fixing novell-novfsd
We suspect that the fault is in the novell-novfsd package. We reinstall it
sudo apt-get remove novell-novfsd sudo apt-get install novell-novfsd Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: novell-novfsd 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/152kB of archives. After this operation, 463kB of additional disk space will be used. WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! novell-novfsd Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y Selecting previously deselected package novell-novfsd. (Reading database ... 101651 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking novell-novfsd (from .../novell-novfsd_3.0.0-14_i386.deb) ... novell-novfsd pre install script /etc/init.d/novfsd: 158: /sbin/checkproc: not found novfs daemon not running... /etc/init.d/novfsd: 160: rc_failed: not found /etc/init.d/novfsd: 161: rc_status: not found /etc/init.d/novfsd: 162: rc_exit: not found NOVFSD not started Setting up novell-novfsd (3.0.0-14) ... /var/lib/dpkg/info/novell-novfsd.postinst: 10: /usr/lib/lsb/install_initd: not found /opt/novell/xtier/bin/regutil: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.19.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory /opt/novell/xtier/bin/regutil: error while loading shared libraries: libbfd-2.19.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So we insert the Makefile snippet from the dpatch info-pagefix into debian/rules and we start fixing a few things...
dpatch-edit-patch 01_replace_rc_commands_in_initscript.dpatch
find -type f -exec file {} \;|egrep 'ELF'|cut -d':' -f1|xargs ldd|less
... and search for 'not found'


Installing the generated .DEBs		Trying out the debs