From 441dbd29fa716e5ad750c9f17d66869ac44ce30b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Covener Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 16:13:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] mention rocket curl for consumers Both GH release one-liners and `zopen download` depend on pre-existing curl. `zopen download` will tolerate older curl, but the one liners on the release pages fail with 7.42 (circa 2017). It is some pipe translation issue that results in: > pax: checksum error on tape (got f5bd, expected 0) --- docs/Guides/Pre-req.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/Guides/Pre-req.md b/docs/Guides/Pre-req.md index ea46d37a3..4a296c324 100644 --- a/docs/Guides/Pre-req.md +++ b/docs/Guides/Pre-req.md @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ It is recommended that you add the above environment variables to your `.profile If you interested in leveraging `zopen download` to download and install the z/OS Open Source tools, then you will require the following tools on your z/OS system. Alternatively, you can manually download the pax.Z releases from Github and transfer them over to your z/OS system without any additional tooling requirements. -* Obtain from Rocket: Git +* Obtain from Rocket: git, curl (7.77 or later if downloading releases directly without `zopen download`) * Obtain from z/OS Open Source: curl, gzip, tar, which you can download from the [available releases](../Latest.md). Our goal is to eventually have our own version of all the _bootstrap_ tools, but right now, we rely on some