Thanks for the info, Anders! I had wondered if anyone had done this already and was unable to locate the port using my google-foo. Thank you for the URLs. I guess we will evaluate how important yum would be for us in our environment and compare the benefits vs. the LOE to implement.
On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Anders F Björklund <a...@rpm5.org> wrote: > Rick Miller wrote: > >>> What version of RPM? >> >> I *think* its 5.2.x, but not 100% sure. I don't have access to the >> host today and can let you know tomorrow. It was installed from the >> FreeBSD ports collection for 8.2-RELEASE. > > That would be 5.2.1. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/archivers/rpm5/ > >> (aside) >> The RPM I am trying to build is yum. I suspect that I may hit a >> number of snags with the yum.spec as I try to get an RPM built for >> FreeBSD. This happens to be the first. > > Using the yum.spec from Fedora on FreeBSD won't work, and is > probably the least of your problems compared with portability. > > A yum port is available, and it required *lots* of patching: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/150541 > > But even with all the patching, the only yum use is for handling > RPM packages for Linux on FreeBSD (like for the linux emulator). > It has too many hardcoded assumptions to work for native packages. > There is no real interest in having it portable to other systems. > > It was mistakenly submitted* as a dependency of createrepo-0.9.8, > but it would have been better to use createrepo-0.4.11 instead... > (* as per http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/150542) > At one point, there was even a port of mock for use in linux-base: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/emulators/linux_base-f10/ > (currently it has a long hardcoded list of rpms, and uses rpm2cpio) > > --anders -- Take care Rick Miller ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org User Communication List rpm-users@rpm5.org
