[MacPorts] #36318: Update rpm to 4.9?
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Tue Sep 25 10:58:36 PDT 2012
#36318: Update rpm to 4.9?
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Reporter: twic@… | Owner: n3npq@…
Type: update | Status: new
Priority: Normal | Milestone:
Component: ports | Version: 2.1.2
Resolution: | Keywords:
Port: rpm |
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Comment (by n3npq@…):
rpm aming (and version) inconsistencies cannot be solved by MacPorts.
Yes rpm-4.9.1 is not a successor to rpm-4.4.9 (which is obsolete for 5+
years already)
rpm-4.5 *is* a successor to rpm-4.4.9 (but the last usage of rpm-4.5 is in
PLD, which has
starting to switch to rpm-5.4.10 because there is no upgrade path for
rpm-4.5 because
of not only versioning, but functional/feature, incompatibilities in
rpm-4.9.1 and its predecessors)
rpm-4.9.1 is a different project, and a new port. Yes I have an idea how
much work is involved,
but you are asking the "competition" in an active and hostile fork what
work is involved.
So far there has bveen vanishingly small interest from Fedora in porting
rpm-4.9.1 -> MacPorts.
There is also vanishingly small interest in MacPorts using rpm (except for
rpm2cpio.sh to extract
sourcxes/patches from linux packaging).
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36318#comment:5>
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