[Rpm-ecosystem] Using RPM with NDB on macOS

[Panu Matilainen]

On 10/21/19 12:43 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 10/20/19 3:47 AM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>> My current plan is to at least get to the point where I can try
>> working with the solv(1) demo program included in libsolv, and then
>> proceed from there. At least with the DNF stack, there's still the
>> problem that it assumes bdb[6] and specific rpmdb paths. I'd like to
>> get to the point that I could use MicroDNF[7]...
>>
>> [1]: 
>> https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/899#issuecomment-543129651 
>>
>> [2]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/334
>> [3]: 
>> https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/3625ca14c752fa229c79891fcc6374df40b5b588 
>>
>> [4]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/907
>> [5]: 
>> https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/compare/rpm-4.15.x...Conan-Kudo:rpm-4.15.0-osx-ndb 
>>
>> [6]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/issues/362
>> [7]: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/microdnf
>>
> 
> Add https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/issues/354 to the list, it's 
> essentially the very same thing as libdnf ticket #362.

I've dnf running on top of sqlite rpmdb now. For sqlite this is rpm from 
git master, but for other backends, released rpm versions can be used.

libsolv upstream has the necessary bits, I'm testing on 0.7.7 for which 
you'll need to have these:
- 
https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/commit/94df5d6bf2eec3fc555550307342e250e2b842c6
- 
https://github.com/openSUSE/libsolv/commit/ea037722b0f2a1afc8416e08b36fd498a8bb14c4

In addition, libdnf minimally needs this (the rpmdb caching wont be 
functional but it'll at least work), tested against libdnf-0.35.5:
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/libdnf/pull/824

	- Panu -