added openssh-server as required OS pack

diff --git a/scripts/core/prep_feisty_host.sh b/scripts/core/prep_feisty_host.sh
index ef44112b64ab2d46d14d7e3f9525664cee239b09..fbb37cb2c3dc4b57c552532396c1bf95dd5f0de4 100644 (file)
--- a/scripts/core/prep_feisty_host.sh
+++ b/scripts/core/prep_feisty_host.sh
@@ -3,14 +3,19 @@
 # this is the feisty meow host preparation script.  it installs all the packages required to run and build feisty meow scripts and applications.
 
 # preconditions and dependencies--this script itself depends on:
-#   feisty meow
-#   bash
-#   anything else?
+#   1) feisty meow, which it is part of,
+#   2) bash
+#   ...anything else?
 
-# note that this list of items is never totally complete, since feisty meow keeps expanding and mutating.  for example, we now have a few
-# python scripts starting to sneak in.  there are assuredly lots of python packages we should be installing in here now, but we aren't yet.
-# this is a best effort script, to at least get feisty meow able to run its core scripts and to build.  although it's always appreciated
-# when things we rely on get installed too...
+####
+
+# note that this list of packages to install below is never totally complete,
+# since feisty meow keeps expanding and mutating.  for example, we now have a
+# few python scripts starting to sneak in.  there are assuredly lots of python
+# packages we should be installing in here now, but we aren't yet.  this is a
+# best effort script, to at least get feisty meow able to run its core scripts
+# and to build.  although it's always appreciated when things we rely on get
+# installed too...
 
 ####
 
@@ -20,7 +25,6 @@ THIS_TOOL_NAME="$(basename "$0")"
 
 # set up the feisty_meow dir.
 pushd "$CORE_SCRIPTS_DIR/../.." &>/dev/null
-#source "$CORE_SCRIPTS_DIR/functions.sh"
 echo originating folder is $ORIGINATING_FOLDER
 export FEISTY_MEOW_APEX="$(/bin/pwd)"
 echo feisty now apex is FEISTY_MEOW_APEX=$FEISTY_MEOW_APEX
@@ -40,7 +44,6 @@ export IS_DARWIN="$(echo $OSTYPE | grep -i darwin)"
 function exit_on_error() {
   if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
     echo -e "\n\nan important action failed and this script will stop:\n\n$*\n\n*** Exiting script..."
-#    error_sound
     exit 1
   fi
 }
@@ -188,7 +191,26 @@ PAX=(noop)
 
 ####
 
-# first we install the low-level crucial bits for scripts to work...
+# first, make sure the OS itself is prepared for us.
+
+PHASE_MESSAGE="installing crucial OS packages"
+
+if [ "$opsystem_here" == "debianesque" ]; then
+  PAX=(openssh-server )
+elif [ "$opsystem_here" == "redhatty" ]; then
+  PAX=(openssh-server )
+elif [ "$opsystem_here" == "macos" ]; then
+  PAX=(openssh-server )
+elif [ "$opsystem_here" == "windoze" ]; then
+  PAX=(openssh-server )
+fi
+
+install_system_package "${PAX[@]}"
+exit_on_error $PHASE_MESSAGE
+
+####
+
+# next, we install the low-level crucial bits for scripts to work...
 
 PHASE_MESSAGE="installing script modules"