Re: [MiNT] RPM

[Keith Scroggins <kws@radix.net>]

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).

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.

And the source code was also a huge mess, IMHO.  Lots of kludging to get 
various pieces to work.

Keith

On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Mark Duckworth wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark