archivers/rpm build problem

Baptiste Daroussin bapt at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jul 2 08:31:11 UTC 2014


On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 08:24:08AM +0000, Koichiro IWAO wrote:
> 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'.
> 

Then you might be happy to have rpm4 because rpm4 is what is mostly used to
package/create rpms out there :)

regards,
Bapt
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