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

[David Halik]

> 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?

-Dave

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David Halik
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OSS/NBCS - OIT Rutgers
dhalik at jla.rutgers.edu
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