Re: Bootstrapping an RPM area.

[Tres Seaver <tseaver palladion com>]

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Steve Juranich wrote:
> Are there any updated documents that talk about bootstrapping RPM from
> source onto various platforms?  I need to be able to support at least
> Linux, Solaris 8 and up, plus Mac OS X.  I realize that there are already
> binary packages available for each of these platforms, but I won't always
> have the root access that would be necessary to install them into the main
> system area.
> 
> I've looked at the RPM guide (specifically Chs 18 & 19), but they all make
> references to fairly old versions of the code base (I think 4.1 was the
> latest one referenced).  The dependency list seems to have grown quite a
> bit since then.
> 
> I've done a little experimentation in a sandbox and I've come up with what I
> think is an acceptable way of doing things, but I'd like to know if there
> is a "right" way.
> 
> Any help, advice, guidance is greatly appreciated.

I would look at the 'openpkg' approach, which is designed to support
multiple "non-root-area" installs on a single box.  The RPM used by
OpenPKG is pretty recent, and bootstraps are available on a large number
of platforms (I think all the ones you mention).

 http://www.openpkg.org/


Tres.
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