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Date:      Wed, 2 Jul 2014 08:24:08 +0000
From:      Koichiro IWAO <meta@vmeta.jp>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: archivers/rpm build problem
Message-ID:  <00000146f62c7bb6-13a698a3-9a41-4a29-98af-fe57c95b3325-000000@us-west-2.amazonses.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140702062550.GI7307@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <20140701123008.GA77747@in-addr.com> <20140702062550.GI7307@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>

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On Wed, Jul 02, 2014 at 08:25:50AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> I can confirm the problem and will see if I can fix, I was wondering why do you
> or other people use rpm for? I am planning to remove archivers/rpm and
> recommanding using archivers/rpm4 instead, so I need to need any corner case
> where rpm4 cannot do rpm3 job.
> 
> btw the linux ports now directly use plain bsdtar :)

Can't argue with migrating rpm from 3 to 4.
At least I still use rpm. Not for extracting rpms but evaluating
rpm macros like 'rpm --eval %_bindir'.

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