On 07/02/11 17:57, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
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.

David,

This is not a clean diff against the exisitng port. You forgot the
initial #$OpenBSD $ marker which is used by cvs for tracking, in Makefile
and distinfo.

Please do it for the other files too if needed and send it as inline
diff (I think cvs diff -Nup) and as a attachment. It is difficult to
merge your changes by hand.

Thanks

Ah, sure, no problem.  Sorry about that.  Will do that and resend.

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David Cantrell <david.l.cantr...@gmail.com>
WH6DSN | http://blog.burdell.org/

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