On Mar 17, 2007, at 9:21 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Mar 17, 2007, at 23:16, Keith Irwin wrote:
On Mar 17, 2007, at 9:01 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
On Mar 17, 2007, at 22:42, Keith Irwin wrote:
I'd like to build some RPMs on my mac for deployment on, well, not my mac. I issued:
$ sudo port install rpm
and, after some time, got the following. I'm assuming there's something building rpm depends on which is not included in the dependency list.
I searched for the error message you got, and found this thread which seems relevant:
https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/rpm-devel/2006-November/ 001838.html
It says the problem exists because rpm 4.4.5 doesn't support neon 0.26.2, but rpm 4.4.6 does. The rpm web site is very confusing to me and I cannot determine whether rpm 4.4.6 has been released or not. You may want to get in touch with the maintainer of the rpm port.
Hm. As suggested on that thread, I'd be fine without neon. Can I simply edit the port file to alter the configure args? And if I did that, would "port clean rpm" then "port install rpm" be what I'd do next?
That should work. Also, once you edit the portfile, port will notice that the portfile has been changed and will auto-clean it for your before install.
Hi Ryan-- Found newer tarballs here: http://wraptastic.org/pub/rpm-4.4.x/ I edited the portfile to use 4.4.6, changed the checksum, but, of course, the patches don't apply. I'm not sure who the maintainer is. I see that the Portfile itself indicates "n3npq@mac.com", but that the last source control tag is "blair@macports.org". I've emailed n3npq. Should I email blair as well? Keith