Hi! I am working on setting up some tooling for our Mac OS X build farm. We are using RHEL and Fedora in many parts of our installation and as a result there is lots of knowledge around rpm and yum. Our current deployment strategy is to create Mac package (.pkg/.mpkg) files that are put into a disk image (.dmg) file. We have a puppet resource type that understands how to mount the disk image and install the package file. This works, but makes software removal difficult and is effectively a heavyweight tarball.
I am evaluating different technologies to better deploy our software to our slaves. I have been browsing your site, but I have a couple questions. If there are published answers, please feel free to point me towards me. 1) Is Mac OS X supported? Does it work? Does it require spec file magic? 2) Does rpm5.org code play well with yum? Do I need a specific or special version of yum? 3) The production/stable/development versions links on the front page don't point to the latest version in the directory for each branch. What is the actual development version? 4) for versions > 5.3.5 and <= 5.3.11, source is distributed as src.rpm. Is there suggested method of building it for Darwin? I could use rpm2cpio + cpio to extract the tarball, but I wonder if there is something better. 5) Is rpm5 still under active development? The last code drop I see is from June, but previously there were code drops approximately monthly. Thanks for your help! John______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org User Communication List rpm-users@rpm5.org
