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

["Mikhail T." <mi+thun%aldan.algebra.com@localhost>]

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

From: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun%aldan.algebra.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: solaris-pkg-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, mi+netbsd%aldan.algebra.com@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/42373: misc/rpm would not build on Solaris 8: __db185_open
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:57:58 -0500

 David Holland wrote:
 >  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.
 
 I did test that -- and the result was negative... As I reported earlier
 in this PR, the pkgsrc-built rpm couldn't understand the data of the
 native rpm on the same machine running Red Hat Enterprise 5.4 (amd64 aka
 x86_64).
 
 Yours,
 
        -mi