From: Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@...>
Date: 2009-06-03T03:31:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Botched apt stuff trying to check out source...??

Xeno Campanoli wrote:

Doh.  Sorry, I got it.

xc

> Xeno Campanoli wrote:
>> Brian Candler wrote:
>>> This isn't really going anywhere, so I'll ask the same question one 
>>> more time. What happens if you do this in irb?
> 
> This is interesting:
> 
> root@leopard:~# apt-get source libldap-ruby1.8
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Need to get 67.6kB of source archives.
> Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe libldap-ruby 
> 0.9.7-1build1 (dsc) [648B]
> Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe libldap-ruby 
> 0.9.7-1build1 (tar) [63.9kB]
> Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe libldap-ruby 
> 0.9.7-1build1 (diff) [3058B]
> Fetched 67.6kB in 0s (72.5kB/s)
> sh: dpkg-source: not found
> Unpack command 'dpkg-source -x libldap-ruby_0.9.7-1build1.dsc' failed.
> Check if the 'dpkg-dev' package is installed.
> E: Child process failed
> root@leopard:~#
> 
> ----snip----
> 
> apt stuff is otherwise looking from what I can tell.  Have I botched it 
> or something?
>>>
>>> $ irb
>>> irb(main):001:0> require 'openssl'
>>> => true
>>>
>>> Do you get "true" like I do, or something else?
>>
>> irb(main):001:0> require 'openssl'
>> => true
>> irb(main):002:0>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>> I am not finding LDAP::SSLConn or SSLConn in my /usr tree
>>> ...
>>>> Can you recommend a way to get the sources off Ubuntu?
>>>
>>> 1. Go to google
>>> 2. Type "ruby LDAP::SSLConn"
>>>
>>> The top hit is the ruby-ldap project in Sourceforge. So that's the 
>>> easiest way to look at the current source.
>>
>> Okay great.  I will take your suggestion and fit this in as my 
>> secondary project today.  I should be able to get this.
>>>
>>> The next question is, how did you install ruby-ldap?
>>
>> I believe it got installed by installing apt-get libactiveldap-ruby, 
>> which was what I originally intended to use, but then all the simplest 
>> examples for what I wanted were for plain ruby-ldap, so I checked it 
>> and it had already been installed.  Perhaps I need to apt-get install 
>> from another package though.
>>>
>>> (1) If you installed it using 'gem install ...' then the code will be 
>>> in your gems directory, which I believe is /var/lib/gems/1.8 in 
>>> Ubuntu (I don't have an Ubuntu box with Ubuntu ruby to hand right now)
>>>
>>> (2) If you installed it from an Ubuntu package, then maybe it has 
>>> been broken in a Debian way to separate out the ssl functionality.
>>>
>>> $ apt-cache search ldap | grep ruby
>>> libactiveldap-ruby - an object-oriented interface to LDAP for Ruby
>>> libactiveldap-ruby-doc - an object-oriented interface to LDAP for Ruby
>>> libactiveldap-ruby1.8 - an object-oriented interface to LDAP for Ruby
>>> libldap-ruby1.8 - OpenLDAP library binding for Ruby 1.8
>>
>> Actually, that is the exact command I used to find it.
>>>
>>> So if you have libldap-ruby1.8 installed, you can find the files using
>>>
>>> dpkg-query -L libldap-ruby1.8
>>>
>>> If this contains only compiled binaries (e.g. .so libraries) then you 
>>> can get the Ubuntu source
>>>
>>> apt-get source libldap-ruby1.8
>>>
>>> which will create the source inside a new directory under the current 
>>> directory.
>>
>> Okay.  That's what I needed.  Last time I did stuff like this was in 
>> 2002 I think and I used tgz files and such.
>>>
>>> The debian/changelog suggests that ssl support should be included:
>>>
>>> libldap-ruby (0.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=low
>>>
>>>   * new upstream version.
>>>   * enabled ssl support.
>>>
>>> However the dependencies in debian/control don't list 
>>> libopenssl-ruby1.8, so I'm not entirely convinced it's correct.
>>>
>>> Anyway, all the C code is there for you to look at. If it were me, I 
>>> would remove the debian libldap-ruby1.8 and install ruby-ldap again 
>>> from source, checking carefully all the configure options to ensure 
>>> that ssl is enabled. You'll also need the build dependencies of 
>>> course; at least build-essential, libssl-dev and libldap2-dev
>>
>> Okay.  The onus is on me then.  I will likely follow your instructions 
>> exactly.  I should be able to get started before noon if I'm not 
>> pulled off by a fire.
>>
>> Thank you very much again for your support Brian.
>>
>> Sincerely, Xeno
>>>
>>> Good luck,
>>>
>>> Brian.
>>
>>
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