Re: Compiling RPM-5.1.9 with external Berkley

2013-11-20 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.orgwrote: What's your rpmdb path ? Please see the error: rpmdb: stat: /tmp/usr/local/rpm5/__db.Basenames: No such file or directory On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:17 AM, bishwajit goswami bswjt.callmeb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi

Re: Compiling RPM-5.1.9 with external Berkley

2013-11-20 Thread Sriram Narayanan
What's your rpmdb path ? Please see the error: rpmdb: stat: /tmp/usr/local/rpm5/__db.Basenames: No such file or directory On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:17 AM, bishwajit goswami bswjt.callmeb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We use Berkley DB 4.8 for some DB transactions. The DB utilities are already

Why rpm5 and smart for Belenix

2011-09-03 Thread Sriram Narayanan
-manager -- Forwarded message -- From: Sriram Narayanan sri...@belenix.org Date: Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 8:54 PM Subject: Fwd: About dpkg and apt-get To: Belenix Developers belenix-...@opensolaris.org All: Summary: I asked Garrett D'Amore of Nexenta/Illumos on Nexenta's choice of using dpkg

Re: Some questions on directions ahead

2011-06-13 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Jeff Johnson n3...@mac.com wrote: An acknowledgement to all your responses here, thanks. Not much to discuss. It's nobody's business but mine, no community there at all, just a bunch of gawking gossiping phear mongering and FUD sucking paparazzi ...

yum support in rpm5 ?

2011-02-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Is there some form of yum support in rpm5 ? Please let me know in case my question is illogical ! -- Sriram == Belenix: www.belenix.org __ RPM Package Managerhttp://rpm5.org

What's the createrepo equivalent in rpm5 ?

2011-02-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Should we consider createrepo or does rpm5 provide something that's equivalent ? Would this be usable by yum ? -- Sriram == Belenix: www.belenix.org __ RPM Package Manager

Info needed - Packages vs compiling on production

2011-02-21 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hi everyone: I'm asking this question here since there are many distribution builders on this list. I'm having a discussion with some colleagues about the merits of installing native libraries via a package manager than by compiling source on production. Compiling source on production is how

Fwd: [belenix-discuss] Progress :: Fwd: [belenix-notify] SF.net SVN: belenix:[414] trunk/spec_files

2011-01-23 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Just wanted rpm5 users to know that the Belenix team is making progress with using rpm5 :) -- Sriram -- Forwarded message -- From: Moinak Ghosh moin...@belenix.org Date: Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 2:21 PM Subject: [belenix-discuss] Progress :: Fwd: [belenix-notify] SF.net SVN:

Re: How do I set the _topdir ?

2011-01-01 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Jeff Johnson n3...@mac.com wrote: All macros in configuration file loads have to start with '%' in 1st column. So you need this %_topdir        /workspace/rpmwork Thanks Jeff, that worked ! -- Sriram hth 73 de Jeff

Re: How do I set the _topdir ?

2011-01-01 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Jeff Johnson n3...@mac.com wrote: snip/ (aside) FYI: I'm very likely to change to the above as default hierarchy in rpm-5.4.x, largely because @rpm.org changes with ~/rpmbuild/* already have changed RPM's default behavior, and I see no reason to maintain

Re: Fwd: Proposal: use rpm5 package format and the smart package manager

2010-11-05 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:12 AM, pinto.e...@gmail.com pinto.e...@gmail.com wrote: Great notice, i am glad as old Svr4 admin, other that doing part of rpm5. Best regards Sorry, I didn't understand that well :) Are you not happy that we're moving away from svr4 ? We're moving away because svr4

Re: Proposal: use rpm5 package format and the smart package manager

2010-11-05 Thread Sriram Narayanan
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Jeff Johnson n3npq@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 5, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: Folks: Here's the latest on Belenix using rpm5 :) Nice! Note that I can/will re-enable the OpenIndiana buildbot on        http://eastham.rpm5.org:8010

What's the use of rpmmtree ?

2010-10-24 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hi: This is a newbie question. I'm facing an error about rpmmtree while trying to build rpm5, and I'll ask that question on the devel list. But as a newbie, I wanted to know what rpmmtree is for. I'm unable to find anything meaningful on the web. Thanks. -- Sriram Belenix: www.belenix.org

What's the use of rpmmtree ?

2010-10-24 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hi: This is a newbie question. I'm facing an error about rpmmtree while trying to build rpm5, and I'll ask that question on the devel list. But as a newbie, I wanted to know what rpmmtree is for. I'm unable to find anything meaningful on the web. Thanks. -- Sriram Belenix: www.belenix.org

Re: A question about bundling rpm5 with our distribution

2010-09-07 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Narayanan sri...@belenix.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:51 AM, Jeff Johnson n3...@mac.com wrote: On Sep 6, 2010, at 3:10 PM, Sriram Narayanan wrote: Hello: I'm one of the team members of the Belenix Distro (www.belenix.org). We are presently using the SVR4 package format, and have

A question about bundling rpm5 with our distribution

2010-09-06 Thread Sriram Narayanan
Hello: I'm one of the team members of the Belenix Distro (www.belenix.org). We are presently using the SVR4 package format, and have wanted to move to a more modern day package format. We are very likely to use rpm5 as our package system :) We intend to bundle both yum and smart, and will leave