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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Time: Tue Aug 05 18:21:24 2003
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On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 05:38, Michael van Elst via RT wrote:
> Request 68 was acted upon.
> _________________________________________________________________________
>
> 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
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> 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.
Glad to hear :-)
>
> > - 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 ?
Typing rpm --help:
... [ a long list of options]
Options implemented via popt alias/exec:
Help options:
-?, --help Show this help message
--usage Display brief usage message
[end]
I.e. the list of 'options implemented via popt alias/exec' is empty.
Testing with e.g.
rpm -qip <package>.rpm
gives '-qip: unknown option'
Cheers
Conrad
>
> > - 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,
--
Conrad Steenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
