Request 253 was acted upon.
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         URL: https://rt.openpkg.org/id/253
      Ticket: [OpenPKG #253]
     Subject: [bootstrap] missing header files
  Requestors: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
       Queue: openpkg
       Owner: Nobody
      Status: open
 Transaction: Correspondence added by rse
        Time: Thu Sep 11 21:18:57 2003
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] via RT wrote:

> I'm working on a port of the previously-requested apt to OpenPKG, and it
> looks like a few of the RPM header files aren't installed:
>
> <prefix>/include/rpmps.h
> <prefix>/include/rpmsw.h
> <prefix>/include/hdrinline.h
> <prefix>/include/rpm/rpmdb.h
> <prefix>/include/rpm/rpmds.h
> <prefix>/include/rpm/rpmts.h
>
> I'm (for now) just extracting a copy of these from the RPM distribution
> tarball in the bootstrap package, but it might be nice to make these
> officially available.

Hmmm... these headers seem to be private API headers of RPM, not
intended to be used by applications. So RPM does not install them by
default as it looks. Can it be that APT is poking around too deep in
RPM's API? Is it really required for building (or perhaps can it be
disabled, etc)?
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       [EMAIL PROTECTED]
                                       www.engelschall.com


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