Re: how to install rpm onto Solaris 10?

2008/7/23 Yukun Song <[email protected]>:

>  Hi hth,
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> Thanks for the great information!
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> I looked at openpkg first. It sounds perfect from the features page on the
> web site, but it doesn't seem to have been active since 2006
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yep

openpkg is very active, it is one of the principal member of rpm5, most
solaris box run it and, if you like, has also had commercial support (
http://www.openpkg.com)

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> Then I looked at rpm5.org. I followed its doc page, it shows that the most
> recent doc is http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ . In
> section 19.1.1, it tells me to find rpm for various platforms at
> www.rpm.org/platforms/,
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Sigh. Jeff Johnson, the "rpm" mantainer and developer for more than 10
years, work now on http://rpm5.org. And, let me repeat,  rpm5
is very portable on platform  different from  Linux: rpm of http://rpm.org
isn't so portable. Guess why in 2008 AIX 5.3 use rpm 3.0.5 (1999 )?

Some google search on the argument can help

JMHO, YMMV



> over there, it redirected me to http://www.sunrpms.org/ where it provides
> Solaris 10 Sparc pkg of rpm. Oh yeah!
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> Point my mouse to the link, it shows that it is actually
> rpm-4.0.4-sparc-sol10.pkg. I come back to rpm 4!
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> Anyway, I got a pkg package of rpm which should be installable on Solaris
> 10. I will give it a go!
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> Cheers,
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> Yukun
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> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *devzero2000
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 23 July 2008 5:15 PM
> *To:* RPM Package Manager
> *Subject:* Re: how to install rpm onto Solaris 10?
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> 2008/7/23 Yukun Song <[email protected]>:
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> Hi guys,
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> We are trying to use rpm as our application's package management system on
> Solaris 10. I wonder if anyone has experience installing rpm onto Solaris
> 10, preferably yum as well.
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> If I compile it on Solaris 10, there should be also a lot gnu c libraries
> required I guess.
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> Not is necessary to use gnu c lib or gcc itself to use rpm on Solaris: for
> maximum portability i raccomend rpm5 (http://rpm5.org) of course. RPM5 has
> been ported to many platform, with a mixture of diverse compiler and
> different c library as µClibc. OTHO, if you want a simple porting of rpm5 on
> solaris 10 you can use the openpkg  http://www.openpkg.org/  project.
> AFAICT most client sun use it.
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> hth
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> Thanks in advance
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> *Yukun Song
> **Technical Team Leader - SMS Gateway*
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> *MOBILE**MESSENGER*
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