Installing/Upgrading RPM on Gentoo

25 May

Posted by Nigel Ball as Installation

It has taken me a ridiculous amount of time to discover the following simple truth…

Since the update of net-misc/neon to 0.28.2 app-arch/rpm must be installed with the ~x86 keyword. This pulls in app-arch/rpm 4.4.6-r5

Without the ~x86 keyword, the emerge will try to compile rpm 4.4.6-r3 which is guranteed to fail.

Donnie Berkholz

May 27th, 2008 at 8:38 am
1

Tricky! Could you file a bug at bugs.gentoo.org about this, so we can get the newer rpm version stabilized?
Nigel Ball

May 29th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
2

Donnie, there is already a bug record for this on Gentoo… it was reading the bug report that led me to identify how to get around the issue.
Donnie Berkholz

May 29th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
3

Ah, great. Thanks for replying!

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