[toolbox-l] RE: rpm database questions

[Michael J. D. <mdo...@Mc...>]

>> Marc -
>>
>> Thanks for your quick reply.
>>
>>> When you build db, you need to configure with --enable-compat185.  We have
>>> db (it's really db1) available as an RPM in the AIX Toolbox, and it is
>>
>> Well, no I didn't build db 2.7.7  with the --enable-compat185.  I just
installed
>> the pre-built rpm.  I suppose I can rebuild db if that is necessary.  Would
it
>> make sense to provide the 2.7.7 rpm for db with this already done for the
>> future?
>
>db-2.7.7-3 was built with --enable-compat185.  You don't have another
>libdb.a on your system aside from the one in /opt/freeware/lib (not counting
>the symlink to that one in /usr/lib)?

Actually, I don't even have a /opt/freeware/lib/libdb.a file so I'll assume
you really mean /opt/freeware/BerkeleyDB/lib/libdb.a.  That's all there is
in /opt/freeware/BerkeleyDB/lib.  I noticed that you stated db-2.7.7-3, I
downloaded db-2.7.7-1 from the web site this morning.  That's all I show
on the download wed site, or is this the wrong URL:?

URL: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/download.html

>>
>>> also installed as part of our rpm.rte installp image for 4.3.3.
>>
>>> You have your own rpm then, and not the version from the AIX toolbox?
>>
>> Yes, I used the rpm.rte package to install rpm 3.0.5 and then I downloaded
the
>> rpm 3.0.5 source from the web page.  I need to build the rpm tools in order
to
>> get one of the utilities I'm working on to work.
>
>I wouldn't think that you would need to rebuild rpm in most circumstances.
>There are libraries for build and development shipped with rpm.  What's missing
>that you needed?  Maybe we missed something.
>

I'm looking for built versions of the programs found in the tools directory.
Partially to know how to properly build a program that uses the rpm API on AIX,
and partially to just use the tools. (ie. dump.c, dump.db.c, etc... )


>> I have also noticed that the normal install of rpm installs itself as
>> rpm-'version'-'release', but it looks like the AIX rpm.rte version is in the
rpm
>> database as AIX-rpm-'aix version'-'release' (ie. AIX-rpm-4.3.3.10-1).  I
found
>> this a bit odd.  Can you elaborate on why this was done this way?
>
>That's not rpm.  That is a virtual package which gets built when rpm.rte
>is installed to provide RPM with the information about what was installed
>via installp.  It's basically lslpp -f | /usr/lib/rpm/find-provides with
>a little bit extra logic.  It allows rpm to find the dependencies provided
>by things installed by installp.  If there weren't such a thing, you would
>have to disable dependency checking every time that you used rpm.  If you
>run 'rpm -q --provides AIX-rpm' you'll what AIX-rpm does for you.  If you
>install more support via installp later (like if you installed some optional
>X libraries), then you would run /usr/sbin/updtvpkg to update AIX-rpm.  The
>level of AIX-rpm is derived from your system level and a counter indicating
>the number of times that updtvpkg was run.
>

Ahhhh, I see the light!  I'm new to rpm construction, and am just learning
how to query the db for info.  Nice approach, but a bit confusing.  Just a
though, but might it be better described without the rpm in the name??

TIA,

- Mike Donahue