Re: pkg/42373: misc/rpm would not build on Solaris 8: __db185_open

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42373; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/42373: misc/rpm would not build on Solaris 8: __db185_open
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 04:16:42 +0000

 On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:45:02PM +0000, Mikhail T. wrote:
  >  Actually, I'd say, the rpm built for SPARC/Solaris via pkgsrc ought to
  >  be able to work with the DB-files created by the rpm, that comes with
  >  i386/Linux... Or is that asking for too much?
 
 Who knows if its data layout is machine-independent? Probably it
 isn't, so don't expect that to work.
 
 If you want to check interoperability, please build rpm from pkgsrc
 with the same Berkeley DB version that the native rpm is using.
 Otherwise it will probably fail to open the database and you might or
 might not get comprehensible error messages out.
 
 The original problem of this PR has now been fixed, in any event.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost