seth vidal wrote : > On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 12:45, Matthias Saou wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I guess you can forget or at least lower the priority of my request to > > have gzip timestamp nullification in the 1.0 branch. I followed jbj's > > advice and simply got 2.0 working by upgrading to rpm 4.1.1, installing > > librpm404 and replacing "/usr/bin/python" by "/usr/bin/python2" inside > > yum's files :-) > > > > For those interested in doing the same, all is here : > > http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/redhat/testing/rpm-4.1.1-1.7x/ > > > > The rpm packages are the exact ones from ftp.rpm.org (not rebuilt, > > original signature), librpm404 was recompiled for 7x (only 8x packages > > are on ftp.rpm.org) and yum is my common 2.0 source package rebuilt > > with :--define 'configfor rh7.3' > > --define 'python python2' > > in order to have it modified to work properly. > > > > The spec file can be found here if anyone is interested : > > http://freshrpms.net/packages/builds/index.html?build=yum > > I'm confused if you're upgrading rpm4.1.1 you shouldn't need to use > librpm404 at all. Don't worry, it's not for yum :-) It's for the currently installed apt as well as a rebuilt ucd-snmp (go figure!). People could also need it for gnorpm and other applications that were linked against the original rpm. Matthias -- Clean custom Red Hat Linux rpm packages : http://freshrpms.net/ Raw Hide 20030716 running Linux kernel 2.4.20-20.1.2013.nptl Load : 0.12 0.12 0.17
