APT-RPM in MacPorts

[Gary L. Greene, Jr.]

On Tuesday 10 July 2007 01:49:38 pm Anders F Björklund wrote:
> Panu Matilainen wrote:
> > 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"
>
> Will try the "make distcheck" then, but I do want both RPM and APT-RPM
> under the ${prefix} which is normally /opt/local in regular MacPorts.
>
> > patch-genbasedir.diff:
> > - needs to be done in a more general way, md5 executable doesn't exist
> > on
> >    typical linux system
>
> Right, then again "md5sum" doesn't exist on a typical BSD
> (FreeBSD/Darwin)
> system. Maybe try both of them, and fall back on "openssl md5" perhaps
>
> :-)
>
> Naturally, they each just have to make their output a little different:
> 6e0e2247598f223a36328d245470cfe3  test
> MD5 (test) = 6e0e2247598f223a36328d245470cfe3
> MD5(test)= 6e0e2247598f223a36328d245470cfe3
>
> > 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
>
> Indeed it needs a rework, just wanted to get it limping along and
> compiling...
>
> Think patch originally was made under the assumption that the code
> using the
> internal values would #define something like _RPMEVR_INTERNAL to use
> them ?
>
> --anders
>
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Keep up the work on this though, since I'm interested in getting 4.5 and the 
eventual 5.x stuff working with apt-rpm. (My distro is needing it :P).