[Apt-Rpm] Issue with apt-rpm 0.5.15lorg3.2 on Solaris 9 with RPM 4.4.2.3

[Brian Schubert]

Hello,

I have managed to get rpm 4.4.2.3 working on Solaris 9 but am unable to
get apt-rpm to work properly with it. Specifically, apt-get gives an
error when ever it encounters a %post, %preun, etc. script.
Additionally, the usage of 'popen' in gpg-check.lua does not appear to
be supported by my setup. Here is an example:

apt-get install nano
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   nano (2.1.4-1)
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/268kB of archives.
After unpacking 781kB of additional disk space will be used.
Checking GPG signatures...  Committing changes...######################
[100%]
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:nano                   ###########################################
[100%]
error: %post(nano-2.1.4-1.sparc64) scriptlet failed, signal 11
W: Error running script: /usr/local/share/apt/scripts/gpg-check.lua:59:
`popen' not supported
W: Some errors occurred while running transaction

And here is what happens when I remove the package:

apt-get remove nano
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   nano (2.1.4-1)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 removed and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 781kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Committing changes...
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
error: %preun(nano-2.1.4-1.sparc64) scriptlet failed, signal 11
W: Some errors occurred while running transaction

I have determined that this is not an rpm issue, since the package
installs/uninstalls without issue when rpm is used directly.

I also experience the same problem with the 0.5.15lorg3.94a development
release.

I would greatly appreciate any help/suggestions.

-Brian


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Brian Schubert
Student Systems Programmer
OSS/NBCS - OIT Rutgers University