I've been using an updated misc/rpm port via my local /usr/ports/mystuff
tree from OpenBSD 4.8 to now. I was using rpm-4.7.2, but recently
upgraded it to 4.9.0. I would like the main ports tree to carry this
release as the 3.0.6 version is pretty old at this point.
A lot of users may be asking "but, why?" which is understandable. I use
OpenBSD on my personal systems but do development work for both Fedora
Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. By having the most recent stable
releases of the Linux build tools, I can do development work from my
OpenBSD systems. Also, a recent version of rpm allows one to crack open
newer binary and source RPMs if you are so inclined.
Given that I rely on misc/rpm for my day to day work, I'll offer to
maintain the port as well. Here's my updated misc/rpm port:
http://www.burdell.org/openbsd/rpm.tar.gz
Right now I just have it create a single 'rpm' package. Comments welcome.
As for the patches, many are build related things to move the GNU
autoconf scripts along. For the gettext and libiconv stuff, I just took
a "skip to the end" approach as I know what LDFLAGS I want it to use.
Some of the source files needed some extra includes. I'm submitting
these upstream so future rpm releases will build on OpenBSD cleanly.
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David Cantrell <david.l.cantr...@gmail.com>
WH6DSN | http://blog.burdell.org/
