Re: rpm on FreeBSD and Solaris

[Liguo Song <liguo song vanderbilt edu>]

Not sure where you get it. I never cared about the SCO publicity scam.
If that really got you worried, try the links at
http://www.openpkg.org/related.html

There are something similar to OpenPKG and might meet your needs.

Good luck.


Liguo


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Tracy Bost wrote:

> I see that SCO is a sponsor.
> I wonder if they will want to start charging royalities for it.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Liguo Song" <liguo.song@vanderbilt.edu>
> To: <rpm-list@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 9:18 PM
> Subject: Re: rpm on FreeBSD and Solaris
> 
> 
> > Try the OpenPKG at www.openpkg.org. It supports more platform and is
> > supposed to be fully compactible with RPM.
> >
> > Good luck.
> >
> >
> > Liguo (Leo)
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Anshuman Kanwar wrote:
> >
> > > (Sorry for prev mail, resending with new subject)
> > >
> > > I am trying to build rpm 4.0.4 on platforms besides Linux. Seems to not
> > > work.
> > >
> > > Are there any pathes out there ?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -ansh
> > >
> > > ::FreeBSD::
> > >
> > > wget ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz
> > > gunzip rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz
> > > tar -xvf rpm-4.0.4.tar
> > > cd rpm-4.0.4
> > > ./configure
> > >
> > >   running /bin/sh ./configure  --cache-file=.././config.cache --srcdir=.
> > >   configure: error: cannot find sources in .
> > >   mv: rename Makefile to Makefile.orig: No such file or directory
> > >   cat: Makefile.orig: No such file or directory
> > >   mv: rename db.h to db.h.orig: No such file or directory
> > >   cat: db.h.orig: No such file or directory
> > >   make: don't know how to make listobjs. Stop
> > >   configure: error: ./configure failed for db3
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ::Solaris 9::
> > >
> > > wget ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz
> > > gunzip rpm-4.0.4.tar.gz
> > > tar -xvf rpm-4.0.4.tar
> > > cd rpm-4.0.4
> > > ./configure
> > >
> > >   configure: error: cannot find sources in .
> > >   mv: cannot access Makefile
> > >   cat: cannot open Makefile.orig
> > >   mv: cannot access db.h
> > >   cat: cannot open db.h.orig
> > >   make: *** No rule to make target `listobjs'.  Stop.
> > >   configure: error: ./configure failed for db3
> > >
> > >
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