Hi I ported the 'yum' package manager to openpkg (older pre 1.3 version, with rpm-4.2.1 support), but had to make a few changes to the rpm libraries that are installed as part of the bootstrap package to do that. Yum uses rpm-python to do its work.
Specifically, the changes to the bootstrap rpm libraries needed are: - Compile and install the version of db3 which is shipped with rpm. - Install libbeecrypt Without these changes, it is impossible to link against the bootstrap rpm libraries due to missing symbols. Since Python cannot be assumed to exist when the bootstrap package is created, the rpm-python package is created post-facto by compiling and binding inside a separate package, but linking against the rpm libs that are part of the bootstrap package. So, finally, my question is whether the two changes above could be applied to the official bootstrap package too. Or alternatively that the rpm libraries not be installed as part of the bootstrap package since they are useless anyway, so that they can be installed by a separate package later. Cheers! Conrad -- Conrad Steenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ______________________________________________________________________ The OpenPKG Project www.openpkg.org Developer Communication List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
