On Mar 26, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Henri Gomez wrote:
> If MacPorts could provide a RPM based distribution, may be need for
> recreating a new distribution may be less urgent.
>
Well I (and aft) have been waiting for MacPorts to attempt
binary packaging using RPM for going on 8 years now.
Don't hold your breath: the politics is rather daunting. They've
never ever quite figured out binary packaging benefits in
Mac Ports, just that its Cool!
> Better if they push dependencies in ... RPMs.
>
You are preaching to the choir …
> MacPorts team did a tremendous works and duplicating effort may not be
> mandatory.
>
Yes, but ...
> About RPM on MacPorts, could it be updated to 5.4.7 ?
>
Yes, but …
hth
73 de Jeff
> Le 26 mars 2012 à 20:17, Anders F Björklund <a...@rpm5.org> a écrit :
>
>> Jeffrey Johnson:
>>
>>>> [...]
>>>> The .src.rpm format is somewhat troublesome to port, but bundled
>>>> rpm2cpio.sh and extracted the tarball in a post-extract {} step.
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>> But if it gets to be too big a hassle, I'll pop out the tar ball and
>>> included
>>> detached signature whenever you wish.
>>>
>>
>> Basically it's only troublesome because there is no built-in support
>> for the .src.rpm format, while there is for the .tar.gz. format...
>>
>> But it was not a big deal to add it, to the "extract" phase:
>>
>> extract.suffix .src.rpm
>> extract.cmd ${filespath}/rpm2cpio.sh
>> extract.pre_args ""
>> extract.post_args "| cpio -dvim"
>>
>> post-extract {
>> system -W ${workpath} "${portutil::autoconf::tar_command} -xzf
>> rpm-${version}.tar.gz"
>> }
>>
>> So for MacPorts it can remain in that format, if you prefer.
>>
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