Re: installing a fake package

2006-08-30 Thread Jeff Johnson
Adding a package stub is the only way with the rpm used by OpenPKG.rpm-4.4.3 and later permits dependencies to be satisfied by addingto /etc/rpm/sysinfo.Backporting to the rpm used by OpenPkg is feasible, so is upgrading.73 de JeffOn Aug 30, 2006, at 8:40 AM, Doug Henry wrote:So it looks like what

Re: OpenSSL security announcement?

2006-09-14 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Sep 14, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Adam D. Morley wrote: It certainly _is_ doable. Either by doing the RPM 4.4 upgrade (which we need sometime in the future anyway and which I would recommend to do) or by hacking in support for FTP-via-HTTP proxying into RPM 4.2 (which I do not really

Re: OpenSSL security announcement?

2006-09-14 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Sep 14, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006, Jeff Johnson wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Adam D. Morley wrote: It certainly _is_ doable. Either by doing the RPM 4.4 upgrade (which we need sometime in the future anyway and which I would recommend to do

Re: Bootstrapping OpenPKG-4.0b81 fails

2009-09-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Sep 20, 2009, at 9:02 AM, Stefan Palm wrote: Am Samstag, den 19.09.2009, 20:18 +0200 schrieb Ralf S. Engelschall: [...] The NAME_MAX simple is not available under your Solaris 10 as it seems. I've applied a patch for this to 4.0b82 and above now. Fine, looks like your patch worked, I

Re: Project status/future

2009-09-21 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Sep 21, 2009, at 3:41 PM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: No, not worth the effort as even in the days of GNU libtool it is an endless effort when it comes to true cross-platform solutions like OpenPKG. And beside faster updates in case of security issues (because you don't have to rebuild the

Re: Project status/future

2009-09-22 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: (3) OpenPKG is a multi-instance solution. Bingo. That engineering reason I understand well (from wrestling with --root and rpmdb solutions in RPM almost daily). 73 de Jeff

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-01 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Oct 1, 2009, at 12:15 PM, Bill Campbell wrote: On Thu, Oct 01, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Fellow OpenPKG-lers, My python build failed after the most recent db rebuild (db-4.8.24.0-20090920.src.rpm). After some googling, I came across this bug report + patch:

Re: Python-2.6.2 --with=db

2009-10-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Oct 3, 2009, at 5:13 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: On Sat, Oct 03, 2009, Armin B. Resch wrote: Thanks, guys, for your insights wrt the bsddb module which appears to be deprecated, possibly in part due to the pitfalls you described. I guess one way forward to ameliorate API ugliness

Re: Problem with libxml wget

2009-10-19 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Oct 19, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Alex Huth wrote: Hi! I have installed wget and now i must install libxml for using mod_security. The installation of libxml stopped after building libiconv-1.13.1-20090701: charset.alias conflicts with the file from wget-1.12-20090923 I don't want to remove

Re: openpkg 4 question about rpmmacros

2010-01-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jan 20, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Doug Henry wrote: It appears that the new openpkg 4 does not honor the variables set in ~/.rpmmacros file anymore. Is there a new way to set these variables? No change to RPM behavior. But the macro search path is configured at build time. This command shows

Re: openpkg 4 question about rpmmacros

2010-01-20 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jan 20, 2010, at 9:22 AM, Doug Henry wrote: It appears that the new openpkg 4 does not honor the variables set in ~/.rpmmacros file anymore. Is there a new way to set these variables? You likely have lost whatever envvar's are needed/used for '~' lookup. hth 73 de

Re: OpenPKG procedure: test-drive OpenPKG 4 from scratch

2010-01-26 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jan 26, 2010, at 6:59 AM, Olivier Fournier wrote: error: Macro %_rpmdir failed to expand error: Recursion depth(17) greater than max(16) 15 (empty) 14 error: Macro %_rpmdir has unterminated body 14

Re: Strange OpenSSL Dependency

2010-04-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 5, 2010, at 11:31 PM, Jeffrey Lau wrote: Same procedure, just .../etc/rpm/sysinfo/Requirename for stubbing out a requires dependency. This should have been s/Requirename/Providename/ to stub out a Requires:. For completeness, one can add dependency assertions for any of these tags

Re: openpkg 4 update and dependencies

2010-04-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 6, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Doug Henry wrote: I'm definitely not using any exclude options and I'm definitely doing -Ua. I have installed a few packages using the --nodeps flag because they pick up strange deps under openpkg 4 (see openpkg-import output below). This is probably worthy

Re: Bootstraping on x86/solaris 10 fails

2010-04-06 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Apr 6, 2010, at 11:48 AM, Doug Henry wrote: I am able to replicate this exact bootstrap problem on my sparc 8 box with openpkg-4.0.5 libtool: link: /usr/local/bin/gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -o rpm2cpio rpm2cpio.o -L/tmp/openpkg-4.0.5/uuid-1.6.2/.libs

Re: OpenPKG 4.0.7 RPM lockfiles permission problems solaris 10

2010-08-31 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Aug 31, 2010, at 4:23 AM, Roman Gächter wrote: Hello We run into serious problems with OpenPKG 4.0.2 and 4.0.7 on solaris 10 SPARC in solaris whole rooted zones. After some days of normal operation our rpm db gets corrupted. (aside) Corrupted means data loss or integrity failure

Re: OpenPKG 4.0.7 RPM lockfiles permission problems solaris 10

2010-08-31 Thread Jeff Johnson
grouped by lockers: Locker Mode Count Status - Object --- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Locks grouped by object: Locker Mode Count Status - Object --- Regards Roman On 08/31/2010 02:20 PM, Jeff