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Jeff Johnson wrote:
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> On May 22, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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>> Steve Juranich wrote:
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>>> 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
According to their CVS repository[1], they are using 4.2.1:
2004-Jan-22 22:42 1.20\
Check-in [22014]: finally commit all OpenPKG RPM changes to HEAD\
By rse.
2003-Aug-24 14:57 1.19\
Check-in [22012]: Resolve: RPM 4.2 -> RPM 4.2.1 By rse
...
[1] http://cvs.openpkg.org/rlog?f=rpm-src/configure
Tres.
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