[lsst-dm-stack-users] problem installing sconsUtils on ubuntu 12.04

[Adrian Pope]

On Jul 28, 2014, at 1:42 PM, Paul Price <price at astro.princeton.edu> wrote:

> On Jul 28, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Simon Krughoff wrote:
>> I've had some private communication with Adrian about this.  He has managed to install on the same operating system outside of his institution network.  This points to a firewall problem.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure how eupspkg is building this.
> 
> Can you download the file: http://sw.lsstcorp.org/eupspkg/products/sconsUtils-8.0.0.0.eupspkg

Yup.

> Can you run:
> 
> git archive --format=tar.gz  --remote=git://git.lsstcorp.org/LSST/DMS/devenv/sconsUtils.git f38997df3e51b4d96dede5237c922cb4bf21a4c9 | tar xvzf

$ git archive --format=tar.gz  --remote=git://git.lsstcorp.org/LSST/DMS/devenv/sconsUtils.git f38997df3e51b4d96dede5237c922cb4bf21a4c9 | tar xvzf
tar: Old option `f' requires an argument.
Try `tar --help' or `tar --usage' for more information.
remote: fatal: no such ref: f38997df3e51b4d96dede5237c922cb4bf21a4c9
remote: git upload-archive: archiver died with error

I’m not quite sure I did exactly what you wanted, but I can always try again. I’m using the git that gets installed by the lsst DM stack installer before it fails on sconsUtils:

$ git --version
git version 1.8.5.2

> Best guess at the moment is that "git archive" (port 9418) is blocked.

I will see if I can find out anything about this.

> P.

Thanks!
Adrian