Subject: rpm on Solaris, Re: Sun source code, ... From: bt@teknon.de (Volker Borchert) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 10:28:52 +0200

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|> Before I get to enthusiastic, has anybody tried installing RPM packages
|> from Red Hat onto Solaris?

It took a bit of hacking to get rpm to compile on a Sparc running
SunOS 4.1.3 with db-2.x in 1.85 compat mode... I notified Redhat,
but they did never respond... I'll mail you the patches if you're
interested...

	vb

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