I too have an interest in rpm 4.x for solaris. The only thing I was able to build were from the OSS packages and patches from Rutgers. But these have fallen behind where the rpm HEAD is today, and I don't think the work that Rutgers did ever made it to the official RPM source. On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 09:23:33 -0500 (EST), Aaron Richton <richton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A bit over a year ago, I wrote a message that said: > > A few suggestions that have been on the list at one point or another: > > rpm.rutgers.edu (disclaimer: I'm partial to this site...) > > http://www.fetterconsulting.com/solaris_rpm_howto.htm > > www.openpkg.org > > and I think I'd still claim the same thing. > > A more modern update: We coerced a RPM 4.4 binary out of a Solaris 10 beta > machine a few months back. The quality wasn't nearly good enough for > release (and we like supporting older versions of Solaris; Solaris 9 at a > minimum) but the biggest issues were in the use of glibc functions that > Solaris doesn't provide. Anybody with experience in cross-platform > software builds should be able to work through these to a production state > with moderate work. > > On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, No Spam wrote: > > > hi, > > > > i asked a little while back about something that i was trying to get to work > > in rpm, looking at getting similar functionality across platforms using rpm > > for redhat, dpkg for debian, and pkgadd for solaris. > > > > now i'm considering as an alternative using the same packaging system for all > > platforms, if i can find a suitable candidate. > > > > is there a version of rpm 4.x for solaris, preferably as a solaris package? > > (i realize i could build my own from source) > > > > this page: > > > > http://www.rpm.org/solaris.html > > > > points to rpm 2.x, and the link that it points to doesn't even work: > > > > ftp://ftp.real-time.com/pub/real-time.com/rpm-2.4.3.pkg > > > > this: > > > > http://www.sunfreeware.com/indexsparc8.html > > > > points to rpm 3.x (a valid link at least): > > > > > > ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/sparc/8/rpm-3.0.4-sol8-sparc-local.gz > > > > and this: > > > > http://www.xernolan.org/rpm/solrpm.html > > > > points to rpm 4.x, but the link, which not technically broken, doesn't lead me > > to what it purports to: > > > > http://www.xernolan.org/rpm/index.html > > > > any advice? > > thanks. > > - rich -- Aamer Akhter / aakhter@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
