FreeBSD 8.2 support?

[wwwdrich]

Has anyone successfully installed splunk 4.2 on FreeBSD 8.x? I'm getting the following error output on FreeBSD 8.2 from the intel pkg:

> sudo pkg_add ~/splunk-4.2-96430-freebsd-6.1-intel.tgz 
pkg_add: could not find package /bin/uname !
tar: Unrecognized archive format
tar: +CONTENTS: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
pkg_add: tar extract of /bin/mv failed!
pkg_add: unable to extract table of contents file from '/bin/mv' - not a package?
pkg_add: autoload of dependency '/bin/mv' failed!

It is acting like the download isn't really a package file and has dependencies on non-standard FreeBSD file locations.

When I get some time I will rip the package apart and see what might be going wrong inside of it.

[bhieric]

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.7" not found, required by "python"42
That was solved by simple ln -s /lib/libutil.so.8 /lib/libutil.so.7

Thanks! this solution worked for me as well!

[shd]

I've encountered the same problem. Splunk package has some weird dependencies. Solution goes smth like this (assuming the only file in current directory is splunk package file):

tar zxf splunk-4.2-96430-freebsd-6.1-intel.tgz
rm splunk-4.2-96430-freebsd-6.1-intel.tgz
cat +CONTENTS | sed -e '/^@pkgdep/d' >CONTENTS.new
mv CONTENTS.new +CONTENTS
tar cf ../splunk-4.2-96430-freebsd-6.1-intel.tgz *

You will find new package file in .. directory. Also, when installing at FreeBSD 8.1 amd64, there was some problem with python shared object:

/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libutil.so.7" not found, required by "python"42

That was solved by simple ln -s /lib/libutil.so.8 /lib/libutil.so.7

[dnelson]

You never want to symlink shared libraries to different versions. The version number was bumped for a reason. Install the misc/compat7x port to get libutil.so.7.