Re: [MiNT] RPM

[Paul Wratt <paul.wratt@gmail.com>]

I think this comes down to what RPM based distro you are using to do
you cross builds on. I use a Mandriva based one, and probably always
will (as opposed to RH itself)

So what distros get used, and if they are not RPM based, agree on
specifc RPM package (from RPM or RH).

Alternatively I get good conversions of deb packages to RPM format
using the Alien script

These are the questions I have:
1) what are the resource requirements for a modern RPM binary used
under mint (as opposed to the current, old, SM one)
2) what is the package base (distro) for rpm packages

It may be better to use an older (lighter) RPM binary for SpareMiNT
(for the reasons outlined in other posts), and a package base that has
good (standard) package configs, even if that is not RPM based, and
then just convert to RPM

It really comes down to how much work needs to be done, and how much
time there is for that work, plus maybe thinking about the future when
someone else has to take up the process (possibly with no one
available to consult at that time)

Sorry if this raises more questions than answers..

Cheers

Paul


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:06 AM, Mark Duckworth
<mduckworth@atari-source.org> wrote:
> I am working with 4.4.2.3 I think from RPM.org.  I figure the rpm.org way jives better with our project but I don't know the advantages to following one vs the other.
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> I'm also finding that out.  Even the configure scripts are a mess, forcing stuff like PIC even when shared libraries aren't used.  stupid stupid.
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> Thanks,
> Mark
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> On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:10 AM, Keith Scroggins wrote:
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>> What do you need?  And, this might be a stupid question, but RPM was kind of murky, whose RPM 4.4.x are you working with, if you can provide a link to the package, since there are 2 competing 'RPMs' now.  IIRC, one is the 'official' Red Hat version (Official because Red Hat uses it) and the other was by the original author who left Red Hat and did his own thing (I think that is rpm.org, he might be 5.x versions though).
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>> More than willing to see what I can do, since I have messed around with the source.  The biggest problem I found in the various versions is the use of mmap EVERYWHERE!  It seemed to me, even when I disabled it, it did not take that in some parts.
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>> And the source code was also a huge mess, IMHO.  Lots of kludging to get various pieces to work.
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>> Keith
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>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Mark Duckworth wrote:
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>>> Hi all,
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>>> I'm working on getting running a newer version of RPM.  Please let me know any suggestions, input, whether or not you are already working on it so we don't duplicate effort, etc.  I'm starting with 4.4x as kind of the "oldest" newer version to see what I'm up against.  I tried to download newer src.rpm's to examine their spec's and found that I couldn't install them.  That won't do.
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>>> Thanks,
>>> Mark
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