Rollback functionality for apt-rpm

[Johnny Hughes]

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 16:39 +0100, Dag Wieers wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> > I've only had a quick glance over the patch, but one immediate concern is 
> > that this adds a hard dependency on sqlite3. I've no idea if it's 
> > buildable (without upgrading like 50 other packages) on rpm-4.0 era 
> > systems (eg RHEL 2.1). Dag / Axel, comments? Breaking those systems is not 
> > really an option at the moment as support for old systems appears to be 
> > one of the bigger "selling points" of apt these days. Another thing is 
> > that I'd like to keep the external hard dependencies to minimum.
> 
> Which brings us back to the libxml2 dependency :) In a previous discussion 
> it was mentioned that this dependency might be removed. Since RHEL2.1 
> RHEL3 both ship with an older libxml2 (2.4.19 and 2.5.10 resp.) and I 
> think the minimum for apt is 2.6. CentOS is not willing to put apt into 
> their extras repository (which is enabled by default) since they do not 
> want to replace the upstream libxml2.
> 
> Since sqlite is not shipping with any RHEL release, it shouldn't be a 
> problem. But it's possible that if RHEL5 ships with it, we have to be 
> careful not to require anything newer than that.
> 
> I haven't tried building sqlite3 for RHEL, sqlite2 is available though.
> I guess I should look into it. If Axel says it's possible, who am I to 
> doubt ? :)
> 

Sqlite 3 (currently 3.3.3) is included in CentOS-4.

There will be a Sqlite 3 (3.3.3) in the CentOSPlus repo for CentOS-3 as
well soon. (It is built and works fine now)

So from a CentOS perspective, we only need to build Sqlite 3 for EL 2.1.

The only other issue we have is libxml2 ... I did not try versions older
than 2.6 ... but I give that a shot if you think it will work.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes




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