Does anyone have any hints for me on compiling (or obtaining a binary, in the unlikely event one's available) rpm 4.2 on a SuSE 7.1 system? I've got this old system running (actually, two of them), and I'd like to be able to use newer source rpms. Unfortunately, the .spec files with newer packages generally make rpm3 barf. I've got the package from ftp.rpm.org, but it's not building on my system. It tries to use its own internal libelf, and that just doesn't build for whatever reason. The ./configure doesn't appear to provide the 'use the libelf on this system, it's up to date and works fine, you stupid idiot program' option, unfortunately. If it did, I'd set that flag and be on my way. Thoughts? --Danny
Is there an easy way to get apt4rpm setup and running? I really like the debian ease or upgrading and would love to get that capability in suse, but don't know where to start, im looking for an easy to understand guide, not real techie, anyone know of any good guides, or just some simple instructions to tell me? TIA nick -- ComputerNick a.k.a. Nick Smith Email - Nick@ComputerNick.com Web - http://www.ComputerNick.com
http://guru.unixtech.be/article/install_apt4rpm.php
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"Nick Smith"
Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2004 22:49 schrieb Nick Smith:
im looking for an easy to understand guide,
http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ ... next time, please start a new thread with a new mail - don't reply to other threads because replies are ordered by mail clients and thus threads get mixed up (-; Florian
-----Original Message----- From: Florian Höfer [mailto:f.hoefer@uni-bonn.de] Sent: Thursday, August 26, 2004 5:18 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Apt4Rpm Am Donnerstag, 26. August 2004 22:49 schrieb Nick Smith:
im looking for an easy to understand guide,
http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm/ ... next time, please start a new thread with a new mail - don't reply to other threads because replies are ordered by mail clients and thus threads get mixed up (-; Florian -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com Sorry I thought I did start a new thread, but I did reply to a message and just delete all the info and put in mine, didnt know I messed something up. Sorry again for the confusion... Nick (and sorry for sending this directly to you the first time)
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 13:34, Danny Sauer wrote:
Does anyone have any hints for me on compiling (or obtaining a binary, in the unlikely event one's available) rpm 4.2 on a SuSE 7.1 system? I've got this old system running (actually, two of them), and I'd like to be able to use newer source rpms. Unfortunately, the .spec files with newer packages generally make rpm3 barf.
I've got the package from ftp.rpm.org, but it's not building on my system. It tries to use its own internal libelf, and that just doesn't build for whatever reason. The ./configure doesn't appear to provide the 'use the libelf on this system, it's up to date and works fine, you stupid idiot program' option, unfortunately. If it did, I'd set that flag and be on my way.
What about 7.3 or 8.2 . I have 9.1 running on a PII. I could you burn you copies of those older versions. I think the 7.3 is personal and the 8.2 is pro. CWSIV
Carl wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] new rpm, old SuSE?' on Sat, Aug 28 at 23:39:
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 13:34, Danny Sauer wrote:
Does anyone have any hints for me on compiling (or obtaining a binary, in the unlikely event one's available) rpm 4.2 on a SuSE 7.1 system? I've got this old system running (actually, two of them), and I'd like to be able to use newer source rpms. Unfortunately, the .spec files with newer packages generally make rpm3 barf.
I've got the package from ftp.rpm.org, but it's not building on my system. It tries to use its own internal libelf, and that just doesn't build for whatever reason. The ./configure doesn't appear to provide the 'use the libelf on this system, it's up to date and works fine, you stupid idiot program' option, unfortunately. If it did, I'd set that flag and be on my way.
What about 7.3 or 8.2 . I have 9.1 running on a PII. I could you burn you copies of those older versions. I think the 7.3 is personal and the 8.2 is pro.
If I was gonna update the whole system, I'd do it with 9.1. However, the important parts of the system (kernel, apache, openLDAP, and postfix) are all installed from tarballs and kept up-to-date that way. Sometimes I get tired of waiting for SuSE to release new versions that contain features or bugfixes that I want. :) Anyway, it'd be a pain to move the config files and data to a new system, so I'm hoping to keep the other "ancilary" parts updated using source packages from newer systems. That means that I need to update rpm to rebuild the packages, or spend lots of time editing spec files back down to a 3.x-compatible syntax. Or maintain everything from tarballs, but that'd be annoying. :) Anyway, I appreciate the offer, but you don't need to do that. The 7.x series packages are all available at ftp.suse.com in the "discontinued" directory, and the 8.x stuff's up in the normal place. Furthermore, the versions up to 8.2 all used RPM 3.0.2 (which, I guess, means I should be able to build security updates from SuSE 8.2). This problem building libelf is really annoying me... Thanks again for the offer. --Danny
On Mon, 2004-08-30 at 08:37, Danny Sauer wrote:
Carl wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] new rpm, old SuSE?' on Sat, Aug 28 at 23:39:
On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 13:34, Danny Sauer wrote:
Does anyone have any hints for me on compiling (or obtaining a binary, in the unlikely event one's available) rpm 4.2 on a SuSE 7.1 system? I've got this old system running (actually, two of them), and I'd like to be able to use newer source rpms. Unfortunately, the .spec files with newer packages generally make rpm3 barf.
I've got the package from ftp.rpm.org, but it's not building on my system. It tries to use its own internal libelf, and that just doesn't build for whatever reason. The ./configure doesn't appear to provide the 'use the libelf on this system, it's up to date and works fine, you stupid idiot program' option, unfortunately. If it did, I'd set that flag and be on my way.
What about 7.3 or 8.2 . I have 9.1 running on a PII. I could you burn you copies of those older versions. I think the 7.3 is personal and the 8.2 is pro.
If I was gonna update the whole system, I'd do it with 9.1. However, the important parts of the system (kernel, apache, openLDAP, and postfix) are all installed from tarballs and kept up-to-date that way. Sometimes I get tired of waiting for SuSE to release new versions that contain features or bugfixes that I want. :) Anyway, it'd be a pain to move the config files and data to a new system, so I'm hoping to keep the other "ancilary" parts updated using source packages from newer systems. That means that I need to update rpm to rebuild the packages, or spend lots of time editing spec files back down to a 3.x-compatible syntax. Or maintain everything from tarballs, but that'd be annoying. :)
Anyway, I appreciate the offer, but you don't need to do that. The 7.x series packages are all available at ftp.suse.com in the "discontinued" directory, and the 8.x stuff's up in the normal place. Furthermore, the versions up to 8.2 all used RPM 3.0.2 (which, I guess, means I should be able to build security updates from SuSE 8.2). This problem building libelf is really annoying me...
Sounds like you dont have a log. This time I am going to use yast etc and make sure I have a offdisk log of installs and changes so I dont depend on achientware. In your case I hope /home is a separate partition. At least with tar balls your additions etc are all in particular known directorys so it should be possible to tar them with all updates etc for installation to another system. To prevent down time use a second drive and do a clean install then install the tar and test. _______ _______ _______ __ / ____\ \ / / ____|_ _\ \ / / | | \ \ /\ / / (___ | | \ \ / / | | \ \/ \/ / \___ \ | | \ \/ / | |____ \ /\ / ____) |_| |_ \ / \_____| \/ \/ |_____/|_____| \/
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