[Apt-Rpm] apt-rpm and rpm 4.8

[Andre Guerreiro]

Hello,
I've been maintaining a branch of apt-rpm basically assuring integration 
in a Mandriva-based system and adding/fixing some features.
It's located here if anyone's interested:
http://projects.caixamagica.pt/gitweb/?p=aptrpm
As we (Caixa Mágica/Mandriva) are still using rpm 4.6.* I've not yet 
faced or indeed tried to solve any RPM API deprecation issue.
But yes, the lack of upstream activity on apt-rpm is a bit worrying for 
me at this time.

André G.


On 03/05/10 14:57, Giulio Eulisse wrote:
> Ciao,
>
> I'm trying to build apt-rpm 0.5.15lorg3.94a against rpm 4.8.0 without much success.
>
> In particular I get errors like:
>
> rpm/aptcallback.cc: In function 'void getPackageData(headerToken_s*, std::map<std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char>  >, std::basic_stri
> rpm/aptcallback.cc:26: error: 'rpmTagTable' was not declared in this scope
> rpm/aptcallback.cc:26: error: 'rpmHeaderFormats' was not declared in this scope
> rpm/aptcallback.cc:26: error: 'headerSprintf' was not declared in this scope
>
> or
>
> rpm/rpmhandler.h:66: error: 'int_32' has not been declared
>
> or again
>
> g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../include -I../include/apt-pkg   -I/Users/eulisse/work/buildrpm/test/foo/osx106_ia32_gcc421/external/libxml2/2.7.7/include/libxml2 -I/User
> apt-shell.cc: In function ‘void ReadLineInit()’:
> apt-shell.cc:2469: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’
> apt-shell.cc:2473: error: ‘read_history_range’ was not declared in this scope
>
> Parts of it seems to come from the fact that some of the RPM api was deprecated, but apt-rpm was not updated to match the changes.
>
> My quesiton is whether there is any plan to bring apt-rpm back up to speed and in general do you expect any real show-stopper (i.e. not API renaming) to have apt-rpm running on top of rpm 4.8?
>
> Ciao,
> Giulio
>
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