If MacPorts could provide a RPM based distribution, may be need for recreating
a new distribution may be less urgent.
Better if they push dependencies in ... RPMs.
MacPorts team did a tremendous works and duplicating effort may not be
mandatory.
About RPM on MacPorts, could it be updated to 5.4.7 ?
Le 26 mars 2012 à 20:17, Anders F Björklund <a...@rpm5.org> a écrit :
> Jeffrey Johnson:
>
>>> [...]
>>> The .src.rpm format is somewhat troublesome to port, but bundled
>>> rpm2cpio.sh and extracted the tarball in a post-extract {} step.
>>>
>> [...]
>> But if it gets to be too big a hassle, I'll pop out the tar ball and included
>> detached signature whenever you wish.
>>
>
> Basically it's only troublesome because there is no built-in support
> for the .src.rpm format, while there is for the .tar.gz. format...
>
> But it was not a big deal to add it, to the "extract" phase:
>
> extract.suffix .src.rpm
> extract.cmd ${filespath}/rpm2cpio.sh
> extract.pre_args ""
> extract.post_args "| cpio -dvim"
>
> post-extract {
> system -W ${workpath} "${portutil::autoconf::tar_command} -xzf
> rpm-${version}.tar.gz"
> }
>
> So for MacPorts it can remain in that format, if you prefer.
>
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