archivers/rpm build problem

Koichiro IWAO meta at vmeta.jp
Wed Jul 2 08:24:11 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 08:25:50AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> I can confirm the problem and will see if I can fix, I was wondering why do you
> or other people use rpm for? I am planning to remove archivers/rpm and
> recommanding using archivers/rpm4 instead, so I need to need any corner case
> where rpm4 cannot do rpm3 job.
> 
> btw the linux ports now directly use plain bsdtar :)

Can't argue with migrating rpm from 3 to 4.
At least I still use rpm. Not for extracting rpms but evaluating
rpm macros like 'rpm --eval %_bindir'.

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