(This is largely a FYI … PLD includes many Mandriva patches) OpenMandriva is attempting an upgrade to 5.4.17 (or rpm-5.4.18) with 300+ patches, ~90 of which need to be rebased (or dropped): https://www.mail-archive.com/om-cooker@ml.openmandriva.org/msg09198.html
I was asked to help port the patches. In order to avoid discussing 300+ patches item-by-item, the following process is being used CVS checkout on the rpm-5_4_15-release tag. Build and fix issues with newer prereqs. Manually extract all the patches (and order of application) in a script. Apply, build, and fix. Upgrade to the rpm-5_4_16-release tag. Fix merge conflicts and build. Upgrade to the rpm-5_4_17-release tag. Fix merge conflicts and build. and this process may be continued up through a rpm-5.4.18 release. The process has proceeded to a collapsed rpm-5.4.17 patch, a separate configuration tarball (almost 1/3rd of the OMA patches are to rpm configuration), and a custom 5.4.17 tarball with all patches applied. The next steps will be to either upgrade to rpm-5.4.18 (still undecided), and then to go through regression testing. Comments are welcome at https://github.com/OpenMandrivaAssociation/rpm/issues fyi 73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ pld-devel-en mailing list pld-devel-en@lists.pld-linux.org http://lists.pld-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/pld-devel-en