[Apt-Rpm] 0.5.15lorg3.93 Solaris build issue

[David Halik]

Thanks, I'll take a look at them. At the moment we're waiting for rpm5 
since JBJ has released the roadmap and it looks like the first stable 
release is only two months away. I'm sure there will be a bunch of changes 
at that point anyways.

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David Halik
Student Programmer
OSS/NBCS - OIT Rutgers
dhalik at jla.rutgers.edu
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Panu Matilainen wrote:

> 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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