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Re: Releasing rpm-5.0.1

From: Peter Kalbus <peter.kalbus@gmx.de>
Date: Tue 29 Jan 2008 - 08:11:10 CET
Message-Id: <653C841B-021C-4DCD-8AB5-CEA493A663EE@gmx.de>
what does this magic --with-bugreport=<address> do?

i don't want to disable errors in general.

can it be changed for 5.0.1?

-piet


Am 28.01.2008 um 21:30 schrieb Ralf S. Engelschall:

> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008, Peter Kalbus wrote:
>
>> today, i played around getting rpm5 compiled with:
>>
>>  --with-db=no --with-sqlite=<installpath>
>>
>> the reason is:
>>
>>  - get a smaller footprint (embedded system)
>>  - berkeley db 4.6.21 is not support on qnx (at least no w/o patches)
>>
>> it compiles with only a few changes (see attached patches)
>> most of them seems to be uncritical or QNX specific:
>>
>>   patch-aa (configure.ac): don't stop, if --with-db=no is specified
>
> Can be removed. Just use --with-bugreport=<address>.
>
>>   patch-ab (configure): resulting configure.ac changed in configure
>
> Is not needed if patch-aa is removed.
>
>>   patch-ac (system.h): u_int32_is not defined for qnx neutrino
>
> Can be removed once you upgrade to the next snapshot (20080128).
>
>>   patch-ad (macros.in): changing default from berkeley db to sqlite
>
> First hunk ("private") cannot be taken over by rpm5.org, I guess.
> Second hunk ("3 -> 4") you should replace by using the Autoconf
> option --with-dbapi=sqlite.
>
>> [...]
>                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
>                                       rse@engelschall.com
>                                       www.engelschall.com
>
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