Re: testing RPM 5 in practice: Berkeley-DB to SQLite migration with --rebuilddb

2007-07-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: Well, as I already said twice on rpm-devel@, I would like to use SQLite in OpenPKG -- at least as a fully functional alternative to Berkeley-DB, i.e., until we officially decided to use SQLite only, I want to use BDB still by default (for stepping

vcheck(1), was: Re: RPM 5 status quo

2007-07-22 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 21 Jul 2007, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: Sorry, the particular web user interface currently is not available in public or even as Open Source. Only the underlying vcheck(1) program and the over 1000 %track sections we developed using this tool are available as Open Source. Google

Re: vcheck(1), was: Re: RPM 5 status quo

2007-07-23 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote: which in turn points to a dead link. Is there a new reference archive? Yes, vcheck(1) some times ago disappeared on the net. ftp://ftp.openpkg.org/sources/DST/vcheck/ thank you. -- Russ Herrold

Re: rpm-5.0.Z releases and rpm-5.1 ROADMAP

2008-02-05 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Jason Corley wrote: - integrated depsolver The issue there, as I see it, is what (existing, additional, new ?) mechanisms will be devised to specify 'target repositories' to consider in doing the dep-solveing. A whole set of structures in the yum space have emerged,

RE: Is there an implementation for PCRE - POSIX interconversion?

2008-04-18 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 18 Apr 2008, Wichmann, Mats D wrote: Hey speaking of wars, let's provide another excuse to put PCRE into LSB :-) (I've already been thinking about that, FWIW) Bad Mats; bad bad Mats :-) -- Russ herrold __ RPM

Re: Is there an implementation for PCRE - POSIX interconversion?

2008-04-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote: A little reading indicates that I have inadvertently worded my question re a PCRE - POSIX conversion implementation incorrectly. ... I was hoping that the _SYNTAX_ can be interconverted for a significant subset of all possible PCRE - POSIX

Re: Is there an implementation for PCRE - POSIX interconversion?

2008-04-19 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008, R P Herrold wrote: wtf ??? These two block qoutes got recormatted by alpine 1.10, or the ML software ... gr [ Perl has a more predictable and much richer syntax than the [ POSIX basic (BRE) and extended (ERE) regular expression [ standards. ... other utilities

Mandatory/enforcing checks for reproducible builds

2008-09-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote: There are two big lies with rpm packaging methodolgy. (aside) The other lie is that rpm install transactions are atomic iff there are no packaging flaws or install host failures. But this lie is reproducible builds, which is true wrto rpmbuild iff

RPM: rpm-5_1: rpm/ CHANGES rpm/lib/ fsm.c librpm.vers rpminstall...

2008-10-08 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Jeff Johnson wrote: There's also a test for MakeMaker that might be usefully added to AutoFu. OTOH its also perfectly OK to assume that perl implies MakeMaker is installed imho. I am away from the test bench with the correct environment, but don't I recall that the perl

Would patches for Windows be accepted? (No, please go away is OK)

2010-01-10 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 10 Jan 2010, Tor Lillqvist wrote: I have been doing some initial small steps to make RPM work on Windows. (Well, a subset, just package management, definitely not the rpmbuild aspect for instance.) there is a somehwat stale version in Cygwin as well, to which you may also want to

RPM: rpm-5_3: rpm/macros/ ruby.in

2010-10-16 Thread R P Herrold
On Sat, 16 Oct 2010, Jeff Johnson wrote: Fixup the Snake eggs too please (i.e. Python eggs aren't building on CentOS 5.5 grr ...) as I recall, I have to add a package not present in the upstream in its 5 series, to solve this python-setuptools-devel-0.6c8-1orc

building question as to the DISPLAY variable

2010-11-04 Thread R P Herrold
Cruising my bugs upstream (I file them, and advance them in front of the Fedorian borg's autocloser to amuse myself, and not with much expectation of resolution) I just got the semi-annual set of proposed auto-closes of neglected bugs, and am re-verifying and advancing them today One is

Re: building question as to the DISPLAY variable

2010-11-04 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Michael Jennings wrote: On Thursday, 04 November 2010, at 10:13:09 (-0400), Fix the package that erroneously assumes that lack of $DISPLAY implies lack of Tk for build. I did not give enough context -- I did a run of several hundred R ad-on packagings, and several need

Re: ordering issues

2011-01-15 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Matthew Dawkins wrote: The question I have for both Jeff and Per, is flattening initial rpms packages to get these needed pieces in place before and actual chroot install begins and super unacceptable hack? I have no idea what a 'super unacceptable hack' is as a goal

Re: building rpm 5.4.1

2011-07-31 Thread R P Herrold
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011, Jeff Johnson wrote: Java is an atrocity … cvs is just mildly senile … works fine if speak slowly … * chuckle * I've recently been tracking a SVN using project with a daily SVN pull -- SVN seems to have followed in its ancestor's path as to not being a speed daemon -

refined implementation of set-versions

2012-04-20 Thread R P Herrold
On Fri, 20 Apr 2012, Alexey Tourbin wrote: I have just learnt that rpm5 project has borrowed set-string implementation recently from ALT Linux. At the very same time, I was working on on a new and improved encoding scheme which can make ... This is exciting news -- This seems like it would be

Re: Support terminate build on files listed twice.

2013-08-26 Thread R P Herrold
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: See other comments: Resolving simple build flaws rather than detecting and terminating a build configurably is what is needed. Avoiding unexpected breakage and avoiding new support load models is a Good Thing (tm) I would write