Re: Bootstrapping an RPM area.

[Tres Seaver <tseaver palladion com>]

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Jeff Johnson wrote:
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> On May 22, 2006, at 7:00 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
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>> Steve Juranich wrote:
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>>> 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).
>>
> 
> While there's a lot right with OpenPKG, its based on rpm-4.0.x the  last
> I checked,
> which certainly does not qualify as "pretty recent".
> 
> 73 de Jeff

According to their CVS repository[1], they are using 4.2.1:

  2004-Jan-22 22:42 	   1.20\
   Check-in [22014]: finally commit all OpenPKG RPM changes to HEAD\
   By rse.
  2003-Aug-24 14:57 	   1.19\
    Check-in [22012]: Resolve: RPM 4.2 -> RPM 4.2.1 By rse
  ...

[1] http://cvs.openpkg.org/rlog?f=rpm-src/configure



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