[MacPorts] #36318: Update rpm to 4.9?

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#36318: Update rpm to 4.9?
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  Reporter:  twic@…  |      Owner:  n3npq@…
      Type:  update  |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal  |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports   |    Version:  2.1.2
Resolution:          |   Keywords:
      Port:  rpm     |
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Comment (by n3npq@…):

 rpm aming (and version) inconsistencies cannot be solved by MacPorts.

 Yes rpm-4.9.1 is not a successor to rpm-4.4.9 (which is obsolete for 5+
 years already)

 rpm-4.5 *is* a successor to rpm-4.4.9 (but the last usage of rpm-4.5 is in
 PLD, which has
 starting to switch to rpm-5.4.10 because there is no upgrade path for
 rpm-4.5 because
 of not only versioning, but functional/feature, incompatibilities in
 rpm-4.9.1 and its predecessors)

 rpm-4.9.1 is a different project, and a new port. Yes I have an idea how
 much work is involved,
 but you are asking the "competition" in an active and hostile fork what
 work is involved.

 So far there has bveen vanishingly small interest from Fedora in porting
 rpm-4.9.1 -> MacPorts.

 There is also vanishingly small interest in MacPorts using rpm (except for
 rpm2cpio.sh to extract
 sourcxes/patches from linux packaging).

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.macports.org/ticket/36318#comment:5>
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