On May 22, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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Steve Juranich wrote:
Are there any updated documents that talk about bootstrapping RPM
from
source onto various platforms? I need to be able to support at least
Linux, Solaris 8 and up, plus Mac OS X. I realize that there are
already
binary packages available for each of these platforms, but I won't
always
have the root access that would be necessary to install them into
the main
system area.
I've looked at the RPM guide (specifically Chs 18 & 19), but they
all make
references to fairly old versions of the code base (I think 4.1
was the
latest one referenced). The dependency list seems to have grown
quite a
bit since then.
I've done a little experimentation in a sandbox and I've come up
with what I
think is an acceptable way of doing things, but I'd like to know
if there
is a "right" way.
Any help, advice, guidance is greatly appreciated.
I would look at the 'openpkg' approach, which is designed to support
multiple "non-root-area" installs on a single box. The RPM used by
OpenPKG is pretty recent, and bootstraps are available on a large
number
of platforms (I think all the ones you mention).
While there's a lot right with OpenPKG, its based on rpm-4.0.x the
last I checked,
which certainly does not qualify as "pretty recent".
73 de Jeff
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