Re: [gentoo-dev] app-arch/rpm - a few questions

[Mike Frysinger]

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