Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:04:16 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [UnixOS2_Archive] No. 420 ************************************************** Sunday 17 October 2004 Number 420 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Berkeley (Sleepycat) DB : John Poltorak 2 RPM : John Poltorak 3 SOX : John Poltorak 4 Re: RPM : Bart van Leeuwen" 5 Re: RPM : John Poltorak **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:57:47 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Berkeley (Sleepycat) DB I have managed to build Berkeley DB - developed by Sleepycat in the past but needed to do some messing around with the normal build to make finish successfully. ISTR some specific OS/2 patches but can't remember where I found them. Does anyone else recall seeing them? -- John **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 08:12:09 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: RPM An upgraded version of RPM (4.04) has recently been made and is available here:- ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/rpm/ It would be nice to get hold of some build instructions or patches for it... -- John **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 08:18:35 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: SOX A new release of SOX (12.17.4) has been built for OS/2:- http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/apps/mmedia/sound/convert/sox-12.17.4.zip -- John **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:13:27 +0200 From: "Bart van Leeuwen" Subject: Re: RPM On 17-10-2004 09:12:09 owner-os2-unix wrote: >An upgraded version of RPM (4.04) has recently been made and is available >here:- >ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/rpm/ This is a sponsored netlabs project, its not finished yet the ultimate goal is that all the changes go into CVS. There will be a usage guide pretty soon, but be aware its far from finished now. Bart **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:13:58 +0100 From: John Poltorak Subject: Re: RPM On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:13:27PM +0200, Bart van Leeuwen wrote: > > On 17-10-2004 09:12:09 owner-os2-unix wrote: > > >An upgraded version of RPM (4.04) has recently been made and is available > >here:- > >ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/rpm/ > This is a sponsored netlabs project, its not finished yet the ultimate > goal is that all the changes go into CVS. Isn't the ultimate goal to have all the OS/2 requirements bundled into the standard Unix distribution? > There will be a usage guide pretty soon, but be aware its far from finished > now. > > Bart -- John