Request 68 was acted upon.
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URL: https://rt.openpkg.org/id/68
Ticket: [OpenPKG #68]
Subject: upgrade bootstrap to RPM 4.2
Requestors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queue: openpkg
Owner: mlelstv
Status: open
Transaction: Correspondence added by mlelstv
Time: Tue Aug 05 14:38:30 2003
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Conrad,
I managed to adapt rpm-4.2.1 to run under FreeBSD4 after ironing out
some heavy Linuxisms in the code. I don't see any major obstacle to
get it running on all our supported platforms.
> - Needs to be upgraded to the newer shell functions for rc scripts
Sure, but that's just drag and drop or copy and paste :)
> - popt options doesn't work in rpm
Can you elaborate on that ?
> - rpm wants to use its own version of libdb, this was worked around by
> renaming the rpm-specific libdb source dir (db3->db3.tmp). This way it
> picks up db-4.1.x from the main openpkg distribution, but it may not
> be
> the most elegant way of doing it.
Probably not, but it is important for compatibility. BTW, we use the
older db-3.2.9.
> - hardcoded a few defines to make rpm/4.2.1/rpmio compile since the
> configure script that ships with rpm-4.2.1 didn't seem to get it
> right.
Yes. There needs more to be done in this area for portability.
I hope to get a working package out this week.
Greetings,
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