[gentoo-portage-dev] RPM Support

[gentoo-portage-dev] RPM Support

[Ron Wills]

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Hi all

  I've noticed the rpm packaging support is a little broken in the
current version of portage. Currently it tries to build packages with
rpm -bb and with the newer versions of rpm it should be rpmbuild -bb. I
have a patch to fixes this (first searches for rpmbuild and then uses
rpm if it can't find it).
  Also looking into it, I've cleaned up the dynamic spec a bit and added
several features (ei. provides tag, post env-update || ldconfig, and so
on). I thought before I sent any patches, I just thought I'd inquire
about the status of this feature. I've noticed there seems to be two
streams for this project at the moment (the current portage and
portage-ng).
  I have great use for this feature and willing to implement it as fully
as I can (time permitting :P), if your interested. I just need to know
where to send the patches, for your review ;)

-- 
Ron Wills <ron@rwsoft.ca>
RW Software

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] RPM Support

[Ron Wills]

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Hi once again

  From all the responses ;) just wondering if this feature is being
developed and/or supported. Should I put time into extending the portage
code on this or is it being dropped? I do have a need for this feature
and need to make a decision as to where to spend my time and efforts
(maybe rpm building in a separate project?).
  I would like know if the portage maintainers would be interested in
patches. 

PS.
I do apologize if this sounds pushy or rude, it's not intended to be ;)

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 12:31, Ron Wills wrote:
> Hi all
> 
>   I've noticed the rpm packaging support is a little broken in the
> current version of portage. Currently it tries to build packages with
> rpm -bb and with the newer versions of rpm it should be rpmbuild -bb. I
> have a patch to fixes this (first searches for rpmbuild and then uses
> rpm if it can't find it).
>   Also looking into it, I've cleaned up the dynamic spec a bit and added
> several features (ei. provides tag, post env-update || ldconfig, and so
> on). I thought before I sent any patches, I just thought I'd inquire
> about the status of this feature. I've noticed there seems to be two
> streams for this project at the moment (the current portage and
> portage-ng).
>   I have great use for this feature and willing to implement it as fully
> as I can (time permitting :P), if your interested. I just need to know
> where to send the patches, for your review ;)

-- 
Ron Wills <ron@rwsoft.ca>
RW Software

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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] RPM Support

[pvdabeel]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:29:07PM -0700, Ron Wills wrote:
> Hi once again
> 
>   From all the responses ;) just wondering if this feature is being
> developed and/or supported. Should I put time into extending the portage
> code on this or is it being dropped? I do have a need for this feature
> and need to make a decision as to where to spend my time and efforts
> (maybe rpm building in a separate project?).
>   I would like know if the portage maintainers would be interested in
> patches. 

please contribute your patches through bugs.gentoo.org. I'm sure one of the current portage developers will find some time to look at them.

Pieter

> PS.
> I do apologize if this sounds pushy or rude, it's not intended to be ;)
> 
> On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 12:31, Ron Wills wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> >   I've noticed the rpm packaging support is a little broken in the
> > current version of portage. Currently it tries to build packages with
> > rpm -bb and with the newer versions of rpm it should be rpmbuild -bb. I
> > have a patch to fixes this (first searches for rpmbuild and then uses
> > rpm if it can't find it).
> >   Also looking into it, I've cleaned up the dynamic spec a bit and added
> > several features (ei. provides tag, post env-update || ldconfig, and so
> > on). I thought before I sent any patches, I just thought I'd inquire
> > about the status of this feature. I've noticed there seems to be two
> > streams for this project at the moment (the current portage and
> > portage-ng).
> >   I have great use for this feature and willing to implement it as fully
> > as I can (time permitting :P), if your interested. I just need to know
> > where to send the patches, for your review ;)
> 
> -- 
> Ron Wills <ron@rwsoft.ca>
> RW Software



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