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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