On Fri, Dec 19, 2003, steve muskiewicz wrote: > [...] > I've been trying on and off for the past few weeks to try and get _some_ > version of RPM 4.x to compile under Solaris 8 and it seems I hit a > different snag with each one. I've been over the list archives and > looked thru Bugzilla, and although some of the patches/workarounds there > go me thru a particular compile problem, it always seemed like something > else would then crop up. Very frustrating... > [...] Well, RPM is primarily developed under [RedHat] Linux, so you can image that getting it to build and even run on other platforms often requires some tweaking first. We've done this successfully in the OpenPKG project for many platforms, including Sun Solaris 8. RPM is already very portable in general, except for some areas. For those you need a bunch of carefully crafted patches. You can either fetch our patch set from http://cvs.openpkg.org/openpkg-src/openpkg/ (see files rpm.patch.*) and try to integrate them into your own build environment to get a "raw" RPM on Sun Solaris 8. Alternatively, you can just use OpenPKG (see http://www.openpkg.org/) and this way get a RPM 4.2.1 build environment out of the box. If you can help yourself in patching programs, try the first. Else I strongly recommend you to stick with the second because it has all porting problems already solved for you ;_) If you're unsure what exactly OpenPKG provides you on top of RPM 4.2.1 please read the article under http://www.openpkg.org/doc/articles/sysadmin/article.html for more details. There you especially can see where OpenPKG's way of using RPM slightly differs from the original RedHat way of using RPM. Just to make sure you do not waste your time trying OpenPKG and later recognize that it isn't what you want. Ralf S. Engelschall rse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx www.engelschall.com _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
