[Apt-Rpm] 0.5.15lorg3.93 Solaris build issue
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Fri Nov 16 03:09:11 PST 2007
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, David Halik wrote:
>
>> I wouldn't mind at all supporting "boring" interim releases but rpm5.org
>>
>>> = 4.4.7 to me are not what their version suggests:
>>>
>> RPMSENSE_ANY (which has been part of the public API since beginning
>> of times) getting removed from the public API suggests that there have
>> been some significant underlying changes, that it compiles doesn't mean it
>> actually works.
>>
>> I'm thinking of adding an explicit configure check that will abort the
>> build with rpm > 4.4.6 to make it clear that this version of apt is not
>> expected to work with the newer rpms and revisit the issue once the next
>> stable apt version has been released (which is technically just around the
>> corner, in wallclock time I don't know as it's mostly a matter of kicking
>> myself to finalize the couple of minor outstanding issues :)
>>
>> - Panu -
>>
>>
>
> Just curious, so far has anyone successfully been using apt with rpm >
> 4.4.6? We're not far enough along to test it yet (due to some vpkg
> issues and an old repo I believe). More importantly, has anyone kicked
> this over to rpn5.org and actually asked JBJ about the internal changes?
Just FWIW, while looking for other things I happened to notice that
Mandriva has some (pretty extensive) patches to apt, including things to
make it work with later JBJ rpm versions:
http://svn.mandriva.com/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/packages/cooker/apt/current/SOURCES/
Whether they work or not I've no idea, but in case somebody wants to try
'em out...
- Panu -
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