On Dec 29, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Edward Quick wrote:
On 29 December 2006 at 14:37, "Edward Quick" <edwardquick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> I'm having problems compiling rpm 4.2 for Solaris 8. I'm getting quite far> (after renaming the elfutils directory - advised in> http://www.redhat.com/archives/rpm-list/2003-June/ msg00182.html) ...Any reason you're choosing 4.2? I managed to get 4.4.6 to build on Solaris 2.8 (sparc). It was a bit of an ordeal, as I'm sure you're finding out for yourself. I've been delinquent in publishing my recipe here. I built rpm 4.4.6 to put its files in my own account as I don't have root privileges on that system. One thing to be cautious of is that 4.4.6 is the first version that doesn't read old rpm formats, right Jeff? The good news is that the rpm2cpio that comes with 4.4.6 still will. Would my recipe be of use to you?
Yes, recent (like last 6 months or so) rpm has dropped converting file lists from what was used by rpm-3.0.x. Sun has had like 6 years to convert, enuf already. I'll attach a rpm2cpio.sh that is even more portable than rpm2cpio.
Kevin, A thousand thank-yous! I'm new to rpm, and struggled to find the source code to be honest. I just need a version where I can run rpm --import and rpm --check-sig so I can port a script I've written to Solaris. The package on sunfreeware didn't have these flags though.Cheers.... P.S.: What's the right way to publish patches that get rpm to build on Solaris? Different lists have different conventions. It might also be useful for me to publish my spec file. -- KevinIf you could let me have your recipe, that would be really useful!!
The Solaris port of rpm-4.4.8 is proceeding swimmingly, thanks to Tim Moony and Frank Cusack.
Details are at https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel.Meanwhile, if all you need is signature verification of a package, then use the attached script which extracts the plaintext from a *.rpm and uses gpg to verify.
The script is very similar to rpm2cpio.sh..(Caveat Emptor: script might need adjustments, dunno if ever used on solaris)
hth 73 de Jeff
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