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Re: RPM port ready


On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:19:09PM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
> A few notes:
> 
> 1) /bin/rpm.exe  should be in /usr/bin/rpm.exe.  The location in /bin is 
> probably a vestige of rpm's primacy in Red Hat Linux.  I know that 
> /usr/bin == /bin on MOST cygwin systems, but...

OK, I'll move it to /usr/bin.

> 2) /etc/mtab should not be in the archive.  Instead, the postinstall 
> script should check to see if it is present, and 'touch /etc/mtab' if it 
> is not.  (Directories are okay; /var/tmp/ and /var/lib/rpm/ can remain 
> in the archive, exactly as they are)

Sounds good, I'll move it to the postinstall script.

> 3) Does the rpm package (and rpm-build, for that matter) --require-- 
> perl?  usr/lib/rpm/Specfile.pm

Hmm, I don't know.  I'll check on that.

> 4) I'm not *sure* about the ( /usr/src/cygwin/RPMS/ 
> /usr/src/cygwin/SOURCES/ etc ) structure.  (I'm afraid of conflicting 
> with existing user's "develop cygwin kernel" directory.  Mine's in 
> /usr/src/kernel/ but I dunno about others).  Maybe borrow a page from 
> the French Red Hat derivative and use ( /usr/src/RPM/RPMS/ 
> /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES/ etc) ?  I don't feel strongly about this.

Actually, I like your suggestion, except personally I'd go with a lower
case version of it, i.e. /usr/src/rpm. What do you think about the lower
case version?

> 5) pedantic: rpm(-build?) probably requires: 'ash' if not 'bash'.  And 
> 'make'.

You're right, I'll add them to the setup.hint file.

> 6) Is there any particular reason you "mostly" followed method 2 in 
> packaging the sources -- except not using the method 2 script?  See 
> http://www.cygwin.com/setup.html#srcpackage_contents

Well, I could /try/ to use it, but honestly, it looked a little too
complicated for my taste.

Once I get rpm working for Cygwin, one of the first things I'm going
to do is quickly convert my Ghostscript package to use rpm instead
for the building, and then run a separate script to perform the
rpm->cpio->tarball conversion. So you can understand why I'm not too
motivated to use it to build the package :-).

I'll take a look at it again, I guess I could make more of an effort to
understand how it works ;-).

Thank you very much for your input, it's really appreciated.

-- 
Dario Alcocer -- Sr. Software Developer, Helix Digital Inc.
alcocer@helixdigital.com -- http://www.helixdigital.com


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