Perl module

2007-07-27 Thread Olivier Thauvin
I just have a look to the perl module code we provide with rpm5, and I'd like to massivelly rework it: - namespace seems inconsitent - some useless #ifdef RPM41 (we don't have to deal with different version of RPM) - some non working old code. - only one source file (splitting would help

HEAD construction dust mixing intop rpm-4_5 modules

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
Hmmm, on a rpm-4_5 checkout, I'm seeing this $ ./devtool prepare === db (cvs co HEAD) Enter passphrase for key '/home/jbj/.ssh/id_dsa': cvs checkout: Updating db U db/LICENSE U db/README cvs checkout: Updating db/btree even though I'm trying to check out on the

Re: Perl module

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 27, 2007, at 3:16 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: Does anyone mind if I rework it completly ? Go for it! I guess everyone is happy if you investigate on the perl/ subdir and make it working out-of-the-box under --with-perl. I even would suggest that you _merge in_ your RPM4 API into

Re: HEAD construction dust mixing intop rpm-4_5 modules

2007-07-27 Thread Ralf S. Engelschall
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote: Hmmm, on a rpm-4_5 checkout, I'm seeing this $ ./devtool prepare === db (cvs co HEAD) Enter passphrase for key '/home/jbj/.ssh/id_dsa': cvs checkout: Updating db U db/LICENSE U db/README cvs checkout: Updating db/btree

Re: HEAD construction dust mixing intop rpm-4_5 modules

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 27, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: I've sync'ed the devtool stuff with HEAD and I don't see why this happens? I can easily live with for d in db file lua zlib; do cd $d cvs up -r rpm-4.5 -d -P; cd ..; done for building rpm-4.5 packages. rpm.spec hackery is

Re: db-4.6.18 not yet

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 27, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: Digging ... My brain fart, too many windows, too many versions, too many machines ... 73 de Jeff __ RPM Package Manager

Create a pubkey arch?

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
Because I get tired of looking at same old rpm -qa sopew, I usually run a tricked up queryformat that looks much like a package file name. One of the consequences of that is I end up looking at different rpm -qa spewage than y'all. So I just noticed libXinerama-devel-1.0.2-1.fc7.i386

rpm-4.5: add db-4.6.18?

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
Now that I actually have my brain fart under control, db-4.6.18 is headed back onto HEAD this weekend. I can trivially bundle that into rpm-4.5 and expect no problems. The reason for doing so is to avoid doing so is the tedious flip-flopping between Berkeley DB versions. Any reservations on

Re: rpm-4.5

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Jennings
On Thursday, 26 July 2007, at 11:55:35 (-0400), Jeff Johnson wrote: Read rpmrc files or not? Not. It's a minimal compatibility gain for a big step backward. We should try to get as close as possible out-of-the-box in terms of platform portability, but there are better ways of doing it.

Re: rpm-4.5

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Thursday, 26 July 2007, at 11:55:35 (-0400), Jeff Johnson wrote: Read rpmrc files or not? Not. It's a minimal compatibility gain for a big step backward. We should try to get as close as possible out-of-the-box in terms of platform

Re: rpm-4.5: add db-4.6.18?

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Robert Scheck wrote: On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Jeff Johnson wrote: Any reservations on bundling db-4.6.18 into db-4.5? Assuming you mean rpm-4.5 rather db-4.5, otherwise this sentence doesn't make sense to me. Yes. Watch for me to type db-2.6 rather than

Re: Should rpm call umask(2)?

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 27, 2007, at 4:44 PM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Wednesday, 11 July 2007, at 11:40:15 (+0200), Michael Schroeder wrote: Uh, not 002 please, 022 is the standard. Make it configurable if you really need to do something like that. Wouldn't this prevent the creation of group-writable

Re: Perl module

2007-07-27 Thread Olivier Thauvin
Le vendredi 27 juillet 2007, Jeff Johnson a écrit : On Jul 27, 2007, at 3:16 AM, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: Does anyone mind if I rework it completly ? Go for it! I guess everyone is happy if you investigate on the perl/ subdir and make it working out-of-the-box under --with-perl. I even

Re: No Neon patch...

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Jennings
On Saturday, 30 June 2007, at 00:56:01 (-0500), Tim Mooney wrote: I would prefer that over the scenario I'm afraid we're heading for too. The question is, what shiny features will ISVs clamor for? Something to turn instroot tarballs/images into RPM's? Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a.

Re: Should rpm call umask(2)?

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Jennings
On Friday, 27 July 2007, at 16:46:43 (-0400), Jeff Johnson wrote: But 0022 is the default setting, certainly choosing the uglix standard default is the least surprising choice that meets the largest number of expectations. On systems that use UPG, 0002 is the default. And last time I used

Re: No Neon patch...

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 27, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Michael Jennings wrote: Something to turn instroot tarballs/images into RPM's? Been on my todo list since November 2005, no worry. Adding tar payloads was just proof-of-concept ... 73 de Jeff

Re: Should rpm call umask(2)?

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Jul 27, 2007, at 7:20 PM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Friday, 27 July 2007, at 16:46:43 (-0400), Jeff Johnson wrote: But 0022 is the default setting, certainly choosing the uglix standard default is the least surprising choice that meets the largest number of expectations. On systems

Re: Eliminating Berekeley DB/Sqlite3 in favor of a flat file rpmdb

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Jennings
On Wednesday, 18 July 2007, at 21:35:47 (+0200), Thomas Lotterer wrote: The first big looser was SVN which I ignored in the early days just because I did not trust to put my data in this kind of storage. Then you were foolish. Subversion's BDB backend had its issues, but data integrity (at

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ configure.ac

2007-07-27 Thread Michael Jennings
On Wednesday, 18 July 2007, at 23:20:40 (+0200), Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: Can you be more specific, please? What _particular_ problems in download scripts and in .spec files are you talking about here? 1. Downloading sources based on spec file names 2. rpmbuild -ta tarball, in which