On Wednesday 05 May 2010 18:34:44 Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > >=rpm-4.7 introduced certain changes to rpm files created by them which > makes some features unavailable when using older rpm versions. Would you > consider this a problem (in other words: are you creating rpms with > gentoo and use them someplace else)? 4.7 was released over a year ago so > I would say most major rpm-based distributions already support those new > features.
i wouldnt sweat it ... stick with upstream and let people dealing with backwards compat take care of the issue themselves (install an older distro) > 2. What's your take on (re)moving app-arch/rpm-5? users requested rpm-5, so if you simply want to rename it, i dont see a problem with it. allowing the two to be installed simultaneously would be neat, but if it isnt possible without a lot of hassle, oh well. > Also any other ideas on use of rpm on Gentoo would be appreciated. For > example rpm.eclass is still bit unknown for me for now...I still have to > see what's it about :-) rpm.eclass exists merely to work with .rpm files in ebuilds. i.e. someone only releases a rpm of source/binaries, so rather than manually re-package, the ebuild fetches the rpm directly and then unpacks it with the eclass. it isnt used for anything else (like creating rpms). -mike
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