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, pkgsrc-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/42373: misc/rpm would not build on Solaris 8: __db185_open
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:12:20 -0500

 OBATA Akio ÎÁÐÉÓÁ×(ÌÁ):
 >  >  Trying to verify the interoperability of the two rpm-executables on this
 >  >  Linux system:
 >  >   root@ws-testjw:~ (438) /bin/rpm -qf /lib/libc.so.6
 >  >   glibc-2.5-42
 >  >   root@ws-testjw:~ (439) /opt/bin/rpm -q -f /lib/libc.so.6
 >  >   file /lib/libc.so.6 is not owned by any package
 >  >   root@ws-testjw:~ (440) /opt/bin/rpm --dbpath /var/lib/rpm -qf \
 >  >                   /lib/libc.so.6
 >  >   failed to open //var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
 >  > Something is wrong... /var/lib/rpm/packages.rpm exists and is 8-bytes in
 >  >  size:
 >  >     -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8 Dec  2 18:05 /var/pkg/lib/rpm/packages.rpm
 >  
 >  You can put RPM_DB_PREFIX=/var in mk.conf and rebuild misc/rpm.
 >  (and BUILD_DEFS+=RPM_DB_PREFIX should be in pkgsrc/misc/rpm/Makefile)
 >  
 >   
 
 But it should be working with an explicitly-specified alternative
 prefix, should it not? And it does not -- unable to deal with the DB
 maintained by "the real" rpm...
 
     -mi