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Recent Fedora packages, including SRPM's, inaccessible from RHEL 5
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Nico Kadel-Garcia
Nov 19, 2009, 5:24:52 AM11/19/09
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I've been doing some backporting and testing for RHEL 5 of various
components, and with the recent changes in RPM, Fedora's SRPM's are no
longer installable under RHEL 5. I can, of course, manually run
"rpm2cpio" to extract their contents, but this is going to be a
problem for testing and backporting. It's compounded with
repositoriies like JPackage, that try to publish RPM's for multiple
operating systems but which recently updated their build system for
the "6.0" release to one that is incompatible with RHEL 5's version of
RPM.
components, and with the recent changes in RPM, Fedora's SRPM's are no
longer installable under RHEL 5. I can, of course, manually run
"rpm2cpio" to extract their contents, but this is going to be a
problem for testing and backporting. It's compounded with
repositoriies like JPackage, that try to publish RPM's for multiple
operating systems but which recently updated their build system for
the "6.0" release to one that is incompatible with RHEL 5's version of
RPM.
I've taken a shot at backporting the RHEL 10 version of RPM to RHEL 5,
and get bogged down pretty fast in dependency hell: far too many
components have changed in the nearly 3 years since RHEL 5 was
published. Does anyone have a working RPM backport? Or a better
suggestion for dealing with these incompatible SRPM's?
Allen Kistler
Nov 19, 2009, 2:50:14 PM11/19/09
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Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I've been doing some backporting and testing for RHEL 5 of various
> components, and with the recent changes in RPM, Fedora's SRPM's are no
> longer installable under RHEL 5. I can, of course, manually run
> "rpm2cpio" to extract their contents, but this is going to be a
> problem for testing and backporting.
>
> [snip]> I've been doing some backporting and testing for RHEL 5 of various
> components, and with the recent changes in RPM, Fedora's SRPM's are no
> longer installable under RHEL 5. I can, of course, manually run
> "rpm2cpio" to extract their contents, but this is going to be a
> problem for testing and backporting.
>
>
> Does anyone have a working RPM backport? Or a better
> suggestion for dealing with these incompatible SRPM's?
On RHEL5, rpm2cpio is what I do when I have to. Alternatively you can
unpack them on F11 or F12 and move the unpacked files.
rpm getting updated is nothing new. It wasn't unusual in the past that
RHL[n] couldn't handle packages from RHL[n+1]. It just hasn't happened
in a while because rpm stagnated due to lack of love. F11 changed that.
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