Re: Flexibly building against third-party libraries (RPM_CHECK_LIB)

2007-06-20 Thread Tim Mooney
on of find. Tim -- Tim Mooney[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building(701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND

LP64 alignment issue in 4.4.9 and CVS

2007-06-26 Thread Tim Mooney
last October, changing the type from uint32_t to uint64_t, the problem goes away. It looks like there might be another problem lurking nearby with the int32_t tid = iid; but I haven't actually triggered that problem yet. Jeff, if you need any additional information to formul

Re: LP64 alignment issue in 4.4.9 and CVS

2007-06-26 Thread Tim Mooney
s like there might be another problem lurking nearby with the int32_t tid = iid; but I haven't actually triggered that problem yet. After looking at it further, I don't think "int32_t tid" is going to be a problem, since it's used in

Re: LP64 alignment issue in 4.4.9 and CVS

2007-06-27 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: LP64 alignment issue in 4.4.9 and CVS, Jeff Johnson said...: On Jun 26, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: rpm 4.4.9 on sparcv9-sun-solaris2.8 (LP64) compiled with the Sun Workshop 11 compiler gets a reproduceable SIGBUS when installing a package or importing a key with a

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ CHANGES configure.ac rpm/rpmdb/ Makefile.am

2007-06-29 Thread Tim Mooney
ectly contact rpm5.org. Why don't you include an "rpm-bug-report" script, a la bashbug, that automates much of that, including relevant information about how rpm was configured, the environment, etc, and then update the docs and begin to encourage users to use that for bug repo

Re: No Neon patch...

2007-06-29 Thread Tim Mooney
ow I'm frequently in left field WRT rpm, but I think if you make stuff like neon or lua too easily "optional", those things will fall outside of the minimal subset, and at that point one needs to decide if it wouldn't be better to just remove the evolutionary leftov

Re: No Neon patch...

2007-06-29 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: No Neon patch..., Michael Jennings said (at 3:12pm on Jun...: On Friday, 29 June 2007, at 14:05:10 (-0500), Tim Mooney wrote: People writing spec files, or whatever packaging recipe format eventually evolves, will write their recipes to use the functionality that they

Re: No Neon patch...

2007-06-29 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: No Neon patch..., Michael Jennings said (at 9:19pm on Jun...: On Friday, 29 June 2007, at 14:28:46 (-0500), Tim Mooney wrote: I was thinking mainly of the application vendors when I replied earlier -- companies like EMC, Oracle, IBM, etc., that want to claim that their

Re: RPM 5 distribution tarball size?

2007-07-03 Thread Tim Mooney
the docs in the distributed tarball would be good. You should carefully review their distribution terms, though. Tim -- Tim Mooney[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building

Re: Eliminating Berekeley DB/Sqlite3 in favor of a flat file rpmdb

2007-07-18 Thread Tim Mooney
ll be slower, because that's a negligible portion of the time it takes to install a package. I've discovered a lot while lurking on the list. I never would have guessed that there are so many people that think that having rpm use Berkeley DB is a bad thing. Ti

Re: Eliminating Berekeley DB/Sqlite3 in favor of a flat file rpmdb

2007-07-18 Thread Tim Mooney
t that has such a long history with bdb has that on the table as an option. It's probably good to "rethink everything" once in a while, but most projects go the opposite direction -- start with lame-o filesystem database and move up to BDB later on. Tim -- Tim Mooney

Re: Eliminating Berekeley DB/Sqlite3 in favor of a flat file rpmdb

2007-07-18 Thread Tim Mooney
software. I'm not a worrier, but if I were, there are hundreds of software components in the environment I work in that are *less* critical than Berkeley DB that I would worry more about breaking and ruining my day (or week). I've probably just jinxed m

Re: Eliminating Berekeley DB/Sqlite3 in favor of a flat file rpmdb

2007-07-18 Thread Tim Mooney
you -- it doesn't matter to me whether RPM sticks with Berkeley DB or switches to using the filesystem. If switching ends some of the points of contention, great. Tim -- Tim Mooney[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Services (701)

Re: rpm 4.4.9 missing neon support in Solaris 9 - build issue?

2007-11-06 Thread Tim Mooney
our networking, but we're not sure yet. I'm going to upgrade proftpd to the latest stable anyways. The question that I'm really wondering about now is why did Tim Mooney have the same results with his Solaris 10 setup. I'm not sure if he was actually using our repo when t

Re: rpm 4.4.9 missing neon support in Solaris 9 - build issue?

2007-11-07 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: rpm 4.4.9 missing neon support in Solaris 9 - build...: On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: I was using our own, which was connecting to a Red Hat Linux 4 server running vsftpd 2.0.1. The same issue was happening for me there. Hmm, then perhaps there is some

Re: rpm 4.4.9 missing neon support in Solaris 9 - build issue? (fwd)

2007-11-08 Thread Tim Mooney
ut Tim has said that a Solaris rpm client could not access a RHEL vsftpd server. That's correct, and there's no NAT or anything else between my workstation and the ftp server I tried. Tim -- Tim Mooney[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology S

Re: Comments on 5.0b4

2008-01-04 Thread Tim Mooney
oilerplate goop propagated into hundreds of spec files, and that can't imagine how that's the right way to accomplish anything. Tim -- Tim Mooney[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-

Re: Permitting noarch subpkgs from a per-arch build

2008-01-17 Thread Tim Mooney
ving "noos" packages was getting the os_compat chains set up. rpmrc is no longer the way to accomplish that, but is noos packaging something that also could be accomplished with a little support from "the community"? Tim -- Tim Mooney

Re: Permitting noarch subpkgs from a per-arch build

2008-01-23 Thread Tim Mooney
, (not )?stripped$ Tim -- Tim Mooney[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building(701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State Univers

Re: [PATCH]: possibility to disable dependencies on parent dir

2008-02-25 Thread Tim Mooney
base package. In my experience, this happens most with perl modules and directories under perl's site_lib. Tim -- Tim Mooney[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IAC

Re: rpm3 package still exist

2008-06-25 Thread Tim Mooney
und just to sign packages they get from vendors. Tim -- Tim Mooney[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building(701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State Univers

Re: rpm3 package still exist

2008-06-25 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: rpm3 package still exist, Jason Corley said (at 12:35pm...: On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Tim Mooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you try sign an RPM built with 3.0.x with a 4.X.Y version of RPM, the RPM becomes corrupted. Would this be something that's

Re: rpm3 package still exist

2008-06-25 Thread Tim Mooney
coming increasingly unreliable for communication, I can't seem to find what I sent in the archives. Oh well ... So support for signing ancient RPMs is a no-go, but it might be possible to convert ancient RPMs to a more modern format? Tim -- Tim Mooney

Re: rpm3 package still exist

2008-06-25 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: rpm3 package still exist, Jeff Johnson said (at 2:35pm on...: On Jun 25, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Re: rpm3 package still exist, Jeff Johnson said (at 12:41pm...: Could a converter be written if preserving header+payload MD5 was not an issue? You

Re: rpm3 package still exist

2008-06-25 Thread Tim Mooney
it via their software distribution infrastructure. For example, Red Hat Satellite Server. Tim -- Tim Mooney[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building(701) 231

Re: rpm3 package still exist

2008-06-25 Thread Tim Mooney
Ms that do pretty crazy stuff. Tim -- Tim Mooney[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building(701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota Sta

Re: rpm3 package still exist

2008-06-25 Thread Tim Mooney
of the software, because all of the vendors that we're talking about as part of this discussion, that are still using rpm 3.0.x, have legal restrictions on redistributing the software you've obtained from them. Tim -- Tim Mooney[EMAIL PROTE

Re: rpm3 package still exist

2008-06-25 Thread Tim Mooney
lopment team has been uniformly pleasant, helpful and responsive when people have asked questions about Satellite on the mailing list, but based on how long it's taking to get other critical features into the product, I don't see Satellite getting this

Re: strange RPMDB problem: messed up entries (regularily)

2008-08-18 Thread Tim Mooney
the problem too. I'm still running rpm 4.4.9, but I've been thinking about upgrading this fall, after the initial craziness of the start of school subsides. Tim -- Tim Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure

Re: Eliminating internal zlib.

2008-08-18 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Eliminating internal zlib., Jeff Johnson said (at 6:15pm on...: Should I rip out internal zlib on HEAD and rpm-5.1.4? Yes, please. Tim -- Tim Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-

Re: Converting *.spec to Makefiles

2008-09-08 Thread Tim Mooney
opefully whatever comes out of this doesn't end up with 1000+ line XML files just to build the simplest package. Maybe something like http://bee.rubyforge.org/ would keep more within the existing YAML-ish syntax, while still allowing for a Real Language ?

Re: RPM DB, Berkley DB and journal files

2011-06-28 Thread Tim Mooney
on in the "log" directory are additional files that are also nearly 10 MB each. As Per suggested, you probably want to at least investigate automatic log file removal. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing &

Re: R: Re: RPM DB, Berkley DB and journal files

2011-06-29 Thread Tim Mooney
will apply, but learning something about BDB for one of those two packages will still help with tuning the other. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 24

Re: RPM DB, Berkley DB and journal files

2011-06-29 Thread Tim Mooney
stats as a measurement, and mmap'd I?O is/was the most important tunable (disabling sync cannot be done in "production" imho). Makes sense. Using RAM for the db env is always going to be faster than using disk. Tim -- Tim Mooney

Re: What should the contents of /etc/rpm/platform be ?

2011-07-22 Thread Tim Mooney
ing %_arch, %_vendor, and potentially other platform-related macros in your host-specific RPM macros (probably /etc/rpm/macros). Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Roo

script for BuildRequires to graphviz?

2011-09-15 Thread Tim Mooney
ng me what I want either. I can do it myself and share if need be, but if there's prior art, I would appreciate a pointer to it. Thanks! Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076

Re: script for BuildRequires to graphviz?

2011-09-20 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: script for BuildRequires to graphviz?, Jeff Johnson said...: On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:23 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: On Sep 15, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: All- Before I re-invent the (possibly simple) wheel, I have a vague recollection of seeing a script that can

Re: Requires: python(foo) = bar

2012-05-11 Thread Tim Mooney
00 edges connecting them. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota Stat

Re: Requires: python(foo) = bar

2012-05-11 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: Requires: python(foo) = bar, Jeffrey Johnson said (at...: On May 11, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: In regard to: Requires: python(foo) = bar, Jeffrey Johnson said (at 2:11pm...: Matthew Dawkins mentioned an interest in better python module dependencies in RPM

Re: Requires: python(foo) = bar

2012-05-11 Thread Tim Mooney
actly what I had, and I was only tracking manually specified BuildRequires dependencies on my Solaris system. It was a mess... Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6,

patches for OpenIndiana/Solaris 11

2013-08-29 Thread Tim Mooney
likely never be acceptable for inclusion, but I'll submit them and let you sort them out. Be expecting to see some patches in the coming days. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-

Re: patches for OpenIndiana/Solaris 11

2013-08-30 Thread Tim Mooney
tally fine with you not incorporating any of the patches I may come up with; I'm submitting more so that they're on the public record in case any other sole is on the same path. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise C

OpenIndiana build environment for RPM

2013-10-17 Thread Tim Mooney
l to RPM, so I'm currently using a horrible hack to do the normal %checkout, and then remove the directories for beecrypt and neon. I also used examples from elsewhere in devtool.conf to check to make certain that necessary OS packages are installed and automatically install them if not.

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm-5_4: rpm/scripts/ vpkg-provides2.sh

2015-04-02 Thread Tim Mooney
In regard to: Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm-5_4: rpm/scripts/ vpkg-provides2.sh,...: The aim is to modernize a little these shells. The comment should be clear. Why? Was there something broken that you've fixed? Because the change you've made actually makes them less portable. Tim --

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm-5_4: rpm/scripts/ vpkg-provides2.sh

2015-04-02 Thread Tim Mooney
Solaris 8 or 9), but it wasn't the default shell and a lot of newer admins wouldn't know of its existence. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242