[Yum] Update on "Yum install fails on Solaris, reports success" thread

Ljubomir Ljubojevic office at plcomputers.net
Mon Nov 30 23:56:34 UTC 2009


RPM v5 and Red Hat's rpm package are not the same product. RPM v5 
developer was working for Rad hat at one point, but when he left he 
created RPM v5. Something like that.

Compatibility could be an issue is you use Red Hat rpm's with RPM v5.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPM_Package_Manager

Joshua Burns wrote:
> Hi - my apologies for the premature send.
> 
> After building versions
> 
> 1) 4.4.2.3 stock from dev site
> 2) 4.4.2.3-18 RHEL patches
> 3) 4.1.7 stock from dev site, and then finally
> 4) 5.1.9 from rpm5.org site
> 
> We appear to have a functional combination of RPM and YUM that is free 
> of the "%pre, %post", etc. scriptlet failure problem. Numbers 1 through 
> 3 all exhibited the bug, and in fact 2 exhibited the problem even using 
> the rpm runtime on the command line.
> 
> rpm5 appears to handle dependencies differently, and we will apparently 
> have to make a much more significant system dependencies package. Also, 
> rpm -qa performance diminishes significantly when GPG keys are added to 
> the RPM DB (I have posted a question about this to the RPM5 list).
> 
> Architecture detection and naming also differs in this version, and 
> /etc/rpm/platforms had to be created for desired behavior.
> 
> We are still working towards a complete, polished solution but the major 
> issues seem to be behind us (although the GPG performance is troublesome).
> 
> Just thought I'd post this for the benefit of any future Solaris users.
> 
> -j
> 
> 
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