Re: pkg/34462 (rpm2pkg cannot install suse100_libpng on amd64)

[Matthias Scheler <tron%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/34462; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthias Scheler <tron%NetBSD.org@localhost>
To: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <p%ppires.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/34462 (rpm2pkg cannot install suse100_libpng on amd64)
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 09:41:06 +0100

 On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 05:39:41PM -0300, Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires wrote:
 > [...]  Running the command by hand failed with both amd64 and i386
 > versions of rpm2pkg.
 > 
 > Other .rpms have been successfully installed.
 
 Let me try to summeraize the facts:
 1.) "rpm2pkg" works on LP64 platforms and doesn't have a general
     portability problems.
 2.) The error message means that the RPM library returns an error.
 
 Possible reasons I can imagine:
 1.) A bug in the RPM library.
 2.) The RPM is corrupt (!= failed to download correctly) or in a format
     which requires a newer version of the RPM library.
 
 I'll try to find somebody who uses this packages on a NetBSD-amd64 system
 to debug this.
 
        Kind regards
 
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 Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/