APT-RPM in MacPorts

[Panu Matilainen]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've added an "apt-rpm" port to MacPorts, for usage with
> rpm-4.4.9 (eventually 4.5) on the Mac OS X and FreeBSD
> platforms... Some of these patches should be "upstream",
> but might need to be adopted to work with both GNU/BSD ?

Ok, the ok parts are now applied, thanks for the patches. What I didn't 
apply and why:

patch-rpminclude.diff:
- $includedir is where the include files are supposed to be *installed*,
   not the place to look for system includes. Normally they're the same,
   but this breaks "make distcheck"
patch-genbasedir.diff:
- needs to be done in a more general way, md5 executable doesn't exist on
   typical linux system
patch-rpmsense.diff:
- these kind of hacks with _RPM*_INTERNAL get apt to build with later
   rpm5.org releases, but I don't believe for half a second it'll actually
   fully work with eg rpm-4.4.9 without a major rework of how apt interacts
   with rpmlib

 	- Panu -