#1 Support for AIX

[Anonymous]

AIX uses RPM v.3 so this utility is very helpfull.
To support v.3 line BUILDCMD=rpmbuild in rpmbuild.sh has to be changed to BUILDCMD="rpm -ba".

AIX command syntax is not 100% compatible with Linux, so all mkdir --parent has to be changed to mkdir -p.
Since mkdir -p is supported on Linux as well, I suggest that to use thus short syntax in future releases.

Other than that, scripts are working on AIX without any problem!

[eric gerbier]

is there any way to know (by script) if rpmrebuild is running on AIX ?

[Anonymous]

uname -s
will return
AIX

[Nobody/Anonymous]

I 've found solution for BUILDCMD that should work on any OS:

if [ "$(rpm -q --queryformat "%{VERSION}" rpm)" \< "4.1" ]; then
local BUILDCMD="rpm -bb"
else
local BUILDCMD=rpmbuild
fi

[eric gerbier]

rpmrebuild 2.5 can now work without any changes on AIX.

you will have to build a package with on AIX with : rpm -tb rpmrebuild-2.5.tar.gz
and then install it with rpm -Uvh rpmrebuild-2.5-1.noarch.rpm