Add recipe for rpm package manager #8090

haraldF · 2011-10-12T18:57:49Z

This change adds a recipe for the rpm package manager. This tool is very helpful to introspect / query / verify / uncompress rpm packages, e.g. for MeeGo development on Mac OS X.

I'm currently trying to upstream the Mac OS X build fixes, until they're accepted in rpm, I'm going to maintain them in rpm.rb.

jcrobak · 2011-10-13T16:28:39Z

FYI, I had to add:

 depends_on 'lua'

to the recipe, else I got an error when configuring rpm:

configure: error: lua not present (--without-lua to disable)
==> Exit Status: 1
http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/rpm.rb#L19

haraldF · 2011-10-13T18:42:51Z

Thanks for the info, I've updated my merge request.

jcrobak · 2011-10-13T21:11:41Z

hey haraldF - I'm also seeing an odd issue... seems like it hasn't done variable substitution during configure:

 ~ $ rpm -q foo
error: cannot open Packages database in /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm
error: cannot open Packages database in /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm
package foo is not installed

I installed with brew install -v but nothing jumped out. Any ideas?

Sharpie · 2011-10-15T17:37:06Z

Double check the patches:

==> Installing rpm
==> Downloading http://rpm.org/releases/rpm-4.9.x/rpm-4.9.1.2.tar.bz2
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Patching
patching file lib/poptALL.c
patching file lib/rpmgi.c
patching file misc/glob.c
patching file rpm2cpio.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 20.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file rpm2cpio.c.rej
patching file rpmio/rpmio.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1455.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 1759 with fuzz 2.
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file rpmio/rpmio.c.rej
patching file rpmqv.c
patching file system.h
Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/patch -f -p1 -i 001-homebrew.diff

haraldF · 2011-10-16T11:27:43Z

@Sharpie - weird, I just retried and the patches apply fine:

/usr/bin/curl -f#LA Homebrew 0.8 (Ruby 1.8.7-249; Mac OS X 10.6.8) http://rpm.org/releases/rpm-4.9.x/rpm-4.9.1.2.tar.bz2 -o /Users/harald/Library/Caches/Homebrew/rpm-4.9.1.2.tar.bz2
######################################################################## 100.0%
/usr/bin/tar xf /Users/harald/Library/Caches/Homebrew/rpm-4.9.1.2.tar.bz2
==> Patching
/usr/bin/patch -f -p1 -i 001-homebrew.diff
patching file lib/poptALL.c
patching file lib/rpmgi.c
patching file misc/glob.c
patching file rpm2cpio.c
patching file rpmio/rpmio.c
patching file rpmqv.c
patching file system.h
==> ./configure --enable-debug --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/rpm/4.9.1.2 --with-external-db

mathieulegrand · 2011-10-22T16:02:02Z

I am seeing the same rejects:

~% brew install rpm
==> Downloading http://rpm.org/releases/rpm-4.9.x/rpm-4.9.1.2.tar.bz2
File already downloaded in /Users/mathieulegrand/Library/Caches/Homebrew
==> Patching
patching file lib/poptALL.c
patching file lib/rpmgi.c
patching file misc/glob.c
patching file rpm2cpio.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 20.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file rpm2cpio.c.rej
patching file rpmio/rpmio.c
Hunk #1 FAILED at 1455.
Hunk #2 succeeded at 1759 with fuzz 2.
1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file rpmio/rpmio.c.rej
patching file rpmqv.c
patching file system.h
Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/patch -f -p1 -i 001-homebrew.diff

2bits · 2011-12-07T20:22:37Z

I was able to patch this on Lion without any hunk failures. I don't have my SL handy to test this on it, though.
I get a different error than other people mentioned, as it has a dep on berkeley-db I guess:

checking db.h usability... yes
checking db.h presence... yes
checking for db.h... yes
configure: error: Berkeley DB version >= 4.5 required
Error: #<BuildError: Failed executing: ./configure --enable-debug --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/rpm/4.9.1.2 --with-external-db>
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/formula.rb:541:in `system'

So I guess this needs another commit for that depends_on. Sorry if the issues have caused ya'll some headaches.
I know how that feels lol, but this does sound handy. Here is a gist of my config.log

mistydemeo · 2011-12-07T20:35:21Z

The patches also applied for me on 10.6.8/Xcode 3.2.6, so my build also halted on the missing depends_on 'berkeley-db'. It builds fine with berkeley-db in place.

arusarka · 2012-02-14T12:41:41Z

I copied the ruby code from rpm.rb file and put it in rpm.rb. then I did brew install rpm.rb

Hoever I'm getting an error uninitialized constant Rpm::DATA.

1st q -> Am I supposed to install it that way?
2nd q -> Maybe the error is there because the patches method has a constant called DATA.

I would really like not having to install macports just for rpm. Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks.

--Aru

Had to install berkeley-db first. Thanks a lot.

2bits · 2012-02-14T20:28:23Z

gist your config.log including the exact error message, plus a brew doctor and brew --config
To answer your questions:

It's ok to install that way. If brew update ever complains about the file you copied into the Library, you can safely delete the file and then brew update again.
That's a long shot, as @mistydemeo mentioned it built ok. We'll know more once we see the logs.

Well I'm now getting the same error as the other fellow:

~ $ rpm -q xbill.rpm
error: cannot open Packages database in /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm
error: cannot open Packages database in /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm
package foo is not installed

but I can fix it if I specify a dbpath like rpm --dbpath /usr/local/var/rpm
I'm working on trying to get a better dbpath into the formula. There are a lot of places in his code
where he uses /var though...

This seems to set the dbpath the way we might want it so that it persists,
though I'm not sure the tabs pasted into github ok:

inreplace 'macros.in', "%_dbpath %{_var}/lib/rpm", "%_dbpath #{var}/rpm"

I went ahead and made a gist of a new rpm.rb that includes

new deps on xz, bdb, gnupg, and doxygen
enables python bindings, which get symlinked into Homebrew's site-packages
removes unused debug configure argument
creates working symlinks for rpmquery and rpmverify that are otherwise b0rked due to bad scripting.

So how well does it work? Well if I exit 1 before the end of the formula and brew link rpm to get
everything in its final resting place, and I run make check I get 52 fails out of 109. So at least something works.

arusarka · 2012-02-16T01:44:01Z

Thanks for your help 2bits.

I was able to install rpm by installing berkeley-db first.

I was getting an error where the configure (or make) step had failed due to dependency on berkeley-db. So I went ahead with brew install berkeley-db first. After that, brew install rpm.rb. The rpm.rb from haraldF rpm branch worked perfectly for me. I did not have to change anything.

2bits · 2012-02-16T02:19:30Z

Using some official rpm from a distro, like xbill.rpm, or any official rpm you have handy, would you run rpm -qil xbill.rpm and paste in your result? I'm curious if it's just my build that can't list the contents of an rpm nor its info.

arusarka · 2012-02-16T12:20:54Z

Damn! I thought I had it figured out.

Here's the console output:

➜ ~ rpm -qil /tmp/xbill-2.1-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm
error: cannot open Packages database in /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm
error: cannot open Packages database in /${prefix}/var/lib/rpm
package /tmp/xbill-2.1-2.fc11.x86_64.rpm is not installed

2bits · 2012-02-16T18:42:09Z

It's okay, plus we get to see your prompt :-)
I think it's important to address the testsuite failures upstream,
though I'm reticent because I haven't determined why there's so many.

2bits · 2012-02-16T22:26:07Z

Configure determines we have /usr/bin/fakechroot which we don't.
Then rpm proceeds to use that command throughout the testsuite.
I tried to build fakechroot from tarball, and I got pretty far with my formula,
but it has too many inconsistencies with ftw(3) for me fix.

harking · 2012-03-01T19:42:45Z

I'm going to try and look into just creating a brew based off the MacPorts of RPM. Looks like they've already solved these problems.
https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/sysutils/rpm/Portfile

haraldF · 2012-03-01T20:50:14Z

last commit should fix the "cannot open Packages database" bug

haraldF · 2012-03-01T20:51:18Z

@harking let me know how it goes. I saw MacPorts was using rpm5, however, I needed an rpm4.

adamv · 2012-03-01T21:08:52Z

Reminder that when this is ready for review for inclusion, we'll want a single squashed commit rebased on top of master.

thughes · 2012-03-24T19:58:19Z

I made one additional change and squashed the commit on top of master: #11188

- Add rpm formula at version 4.11.0.1 (brown paper bag release of 4.11.x) - Enable default lua and python bindings. - Docs are disabled because they're online. - Added portability patches (from 5f69d15). Closes Homebrew#8090 Homebrew#11188 Homebrew#14937

Harald Fernengel added 2 commits October 13, 2011 20:41

Add recipe for rpm package manager

5f69d15

also depend on lua

ff62260

add berkeley-db, fix various config switches

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Add recipe for rpm package manager #11188

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New formula: rpm (version 4.x) #14937

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add rpm 5.4 formula #12635

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New formula: rpm 4.11 #19557

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