On Thu, 21 Apr 2016, Joshua G Lock wrote: ... snip ...
> On the topic of RPM4 vs. RPM5 you should be able to find more > details in the list archives, I easily found a brief summary by Mark > Hatle in the Yocto Project mailing list archive: > > "There are some specific uses of RPM 4 in the YP, but I do caution > against people just using it "because". The RPM 5 version is > generally better suited for the embedded world. (There are been > posts on more reasons on the oe-core lists in the past. But as > quick summary -- dynamic architecture support, better cross > compilation support, cross- endian support, more configurable for > custom distributions, etc.)" > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.embedded.yocto.general/28654/ > > We ended up removing RPM4 support because it was clear that it was > broken when using SMART as a package manager and we didn't have the > resources to fix it, nor any objections to its removal. ah, i was unaware that smart does not play well with RPM4 ... i think i'd better collect all this info so i can present it in one shot. i think i'm going to look into the feasibility of installing RPM5 on that centos build server, unless someone cautions me against it. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
