rpm-3.0.3

RPM, the RedHat Package Manager, is a useful utility for managing the installation of complex packages. It works on most platforms; you do not need to run RedHat Linux to use rpm.

I have been alerted that this port does not work correctly if you are using "text" mounts. The temporary workaround is to use "binary" mounts. Eventually, I'll have time to complete this port to cygwin, by ensuring that the "fopen()" commands in the sourcecode use O_BINARY when it is appropriate.

Install the binary kit:

1. download, and save it somewhere <path-to-tarball>
2. cd /
3. bzip2 -dc <path-to-tarball>/rpm-3.0.2-cygwinb20.tar.bz2 | tar xvf -
4. rpm --initdb
5. touch /etc/mtab

Warning: before unpacking the tarball in step 3, make sure that the following four files do not exist.

• /usr/local/lib/rpmpopt
• /usr/local/lib/rpmrc
• /usr/local/lib/rpm/rpmpopt
• /usr/local/lib/rpm/rpmrc

Build from source:

First, you need to build and install the "gettext" and "Berkeley db" libraries

Then, do the following:

1. download the source tarball and the patch. Save them somewhere handy. <path-to-tarball>
2. cd /usr/local/src
3. gzip -dc <path-to-tarball>/rpm-3.0.2.tar.gz | tar xvf -
4. cd /usr/local/src/rpm-3.0.2
5. patch -p1 < <path-to-tarball>/rpm-3.0.2-cygwinb20.patch
6. cp misc/libgettext.h intl/libgettext.h
7. LIB='-L/usr/local/lib' CPPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include' ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
8. make
9. make tar
   NOTE: "make install" doesn't seem to work
10. mv /tmp/rpm-3.0.2.tar /usr/local/src/rpm-3.0.2-cygwinb20.tar
11. cd /
12. tar xvf /usr/local/src/rpm-3.0.2-cygwinb20.tar
    see warning below
13. rpm --initdb
14. touch /etc/mtab

Warning: before unpacking the tarball, make sure that the following four files do not exist.

• /usr/local/lib/rpmpopt
• /usr/local/lib/rpmrc
• /usr/local/lib/rpm/rpmpopt
• /usr/local/lib/rpm/rpmrc

Download:

• rpm-3.0.3-cygwin-pre21.README
  • 605 bytes
  • 0305fd4eaed5ed3cef12e8988b2d3be2 *rpm-3.0.3-cygwin-pre21.README
• rpm-3.0.3-cygwin-pre21.patch
  • 3449 bytes
  • 7719a359503e66fd7cb94c3b4a4571a1 *rpm-3.0.3-cygwin-pre21.patch
• rpm-3.0.3-cygwin-pre21.tar.bz2
  • 1118673 bytes
  • 523de5d07a0c6e3a5a27381346d07089 *rpm-3.0.3-cygwin-pre21.tar.bz2
  • binary kit
• rpm-3.0.3.tar.gz
  • 1450143 bytes
  • 18274be1e1fbeed9c9563fd370303d1d *rpm-3.0.3.tar.gz
  • original (unpatched) source

rpm-3.0.3-cygwin-pre21.README

Prerequisites:
  zlib
  bzlib
  db

unpack rpm-3.0.3.tar.gz
cd rpm-3.0.3
patch -p1 < ../rpm-3.0.3-cygwin-pre21.patch
export CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib

/* The following was an attempt to force configure to find
   these header files. Configure doesn't use CFLAGS! It didn't
	work in the case of zlib.h
	*/
for file in (db.h db_185.h dbm.h gdbm.h ndbm.h zlib.h bzlib.h)
  cp /usr/local/include/${file} /usr/i586-pc-cygwin32/include
end
./configure --prefix=/usr/local

/* edit config.h and #define HAVE_ZLIB_H */
make
make tar
cd /
tar xvf /tmp/rpm-3.0.3.tar
rpm --initdb

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