Upgrading To Rpm-5

Use these configure options.

./configure --verbose --prefix=/usr --with-db=internal --with-db-tools-integrated --with-zlib=internal --with-file=internal --with-lua=internal --with-sqlite=external --with-beecrypt=external --with-nss=external --with-neon=external --with-pcre=external --with-uuid=external --with-xar=internal --with-bzip2=external --with-popt=external --with-keyutils=external --with-libelf --with-python --with-perl --with-build-extlibdep --with-build-maxextlibdep --enable-build-pic --enable-build-pie --enable-build-versionscript --enable-build-warnings --enable-build-debug

You will also libelf1 and libelf-devel, need nss, neon, and beecrypt and their respective -devel packages.

From there, run the configure (with all those options), then run make, and make install.

I continue to work with the rpm5 team to get this. We have modified the configure options to this

> ./configure --verbose --prefix=/usr --with-db=internal --with-db-tools-integrated --with-zlib=external --with-file=external --with-lua=external --with-sqlite=external --with-beecrypt=external --with-nss=external --with-neon=external --with-pcre=external --with-xar=/usr/include/xar --with-bzip2=external--with-popt=external --with-keyutils=external --with-libelf --with-python --with-perl --with-build-extlibdep --with-build-maxextlibdep --enable-build-pic --enable-build-pie --enable-build-versionscript --enable-build-warnings --enable-build-debug

You can add the option for uuid back in, if you wish, just make sure to install uuid and the devel. I have had to rebuild some src.rpms. Beecrypt is a pain to compile, and fortunately jbj did do a src.rpm of it. So I rebuilt beecrypt and lzma.

I'll put up the rpm's for beecrypt and lzma on my site shortly.

As promised, here are the rpms http://downloads.thecompletecomputerresource.com/rpms/

I used the builds of rpm here http://rpm5.org/files/rpm/rpm-5.1/SNAPSHOT/ it's only source files.

rpm --version
rpm (RPM) 5.1.SNAPSHOT.20080220


So I am now on rpm-5.

OK. A few things. Unknown to me, openSUSE does not have /etc/rpm/platform
Why is this important? When reading the database all the entries will be marked as 0 (binary option) which is to say "nothing is there". Now, there are a couple ways to fix this. Get the current snapshot of rpm-5.1 or run this

rpm --eval %{_target_platform}

In my case it output this

i586-suse-linux

So then I ran

/etc/rpm #touch platform

and then I opened it with vim

/etc/rpm # vim platform

I added

i586-suse-linux

Now if that's all, you can :wq to save and quit. However, you may want to extend it a bit. So I included a few more

i586-suse-linux
i386-suse-linux
noarch-suse-linux

Is what mine looks like. It will prefer the i586-suse-linux and use the others in the order you see listed.

Now if you're running 64bit, it's the same concept. Just use the output from

rpm --eval %{_target_platform}

as your base.