On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 16:34, Paul Mitchell wrote: > Hi, > > Just started looking at yum today as a replacement for our current > RedHat repository based on apt-get. Looking very promising, but the > snag is that I have to host the repository for the RedHat RPMs on a > Solaris system for boring local reasons. I bent the scripts which made > the apt repository a bit to make them work on Solaris, but the snag is > that doing the same to make yum-arch work on Solaris appears more > tricky. I'm pretty much totally ignorant of python, so I'm a bit lost > here. But all I want is to make yum-arch work on Solaris to produce > the headers files. > > Any chance of me getting this working? I have Python 1.5.2 on the > system in question, and compiled and made yum 1.0 ok. But when I try > and execute yum-arch, it seems to need a module for rpm (presumably > so it can understand the contents of each RPM): The headers can be transferred around cleanly and at will. might be easier to build them on a linux box then xfer them over to your fileserver. I do that here and my fileserver IS a linux box. > > Traceback (innermost last): > File "/Install/yum/bin/yum-arch", line 23, in ? > import pullheaders > File "pullheaders.py", line 23, in ? > import rpm > ImportError: No module named rpm > > Can any kind soul tell me a way I might be able to get this working, > or tell me not to try as it's a non-starter? What it is asking for here is the rpm python installation. you should be able to build rpm in solaris w/o too much trouble, just make sure the python bindings build too then install the python bindings in the site-packages path for python. -sv
