RE: how to install rpm onto Solaris 10?

Sounds cool from your email. Though I didn't see any openpkg release growing since 2006, I will give a go anyway. 

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of devzero2000
Sent: Wednesday, 23 July 2008 6:28 PM
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Subject: Re: how to install rpm onto Solaris 10?

 

 

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

Hi hth,

 

Thanks for the great information! 

 

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


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)

	
	 

	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/, 

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! 

	 

	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! 

	 

	Anyway, I got a pkg package of rpm which should be installable on Solaris 10. I will give it a go! 

	 

	Cheers,

	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?

	 

	 

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

	Hi guys, 

	 

	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. 

	 

	If I compile it on Solaris 10, there should be also a lot gnu c libraries required I guess.

	
	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.
	
	hth
	
	
	
	 

		
		 

		Thanks in advance

		Yukun Song
		Technical Team Leader - SMS Gateway

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