This is probably a good idea. I did this a few months back with a debian stable system, but I rebuilt python and rpm from source because it seemed to be less of a hassle. The rpm package. It took me about 3 days of playing with the source, and if I honestly remembered what I did with it I'd post it for you. The other benefit to doing this is a more recent version of rpm, which means that when seth is happy with his metadata stuff, and yanks the headers from us, we won't be left in the cold ;-) anyway good luck, and if I can find my notes on what I did, I'll post them for you. On Jan 8, 2004, at 06:24, javier@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >> I'd like to create a yum repository and host it on >> a Debian (stable) machine. Using rsync/wget/etc is >> no problem, however I'd like to be able to add packages. >> This would require a functional yum-arch. >> >> Debian's rpm stuff doesn't have the python >> /usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/rpmmodule.so file >> (part of the rpm-python-4.0.4-7x.18 package on my >> Red Hat 7.3 box, for example) which pretty much kills >> yum-arch. >> >> Before I go trying to find source and compiling it myself, >> I thought I'd ask if anyone has already been down this >> road successfully. > > Although my case is quite different, I suggest you just extract the > rpmmodule.so file from a rpm-python package and use it. We have the > repository on a Solaris machine with rpm 4.0.2 from Rutgers university > (it includes the python module), and python 1.6 from solaris freeware. > The only problem is a warning message from python, telling that the > rpm module is compiled for other python API (1.5). But the whole yum > and the module works very good. > Although I guess that any rpm-python from 4.0.x series should work > with any > 4.0.x rpm binary, I think is much safer to get a rpmmodule from the > same > rpm version you run. > > Javier Palacios > > _______________________________________________ > Yum mailing list > Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum
