RPM on HP-UX
Native package format on HPUX is SD-UX and package is called a depot file.
There is no precpmpiled RPM for HP-UX (strange and tells something about HP red
tape). RPM is quite portable since version 5
Here is how to build RPM on HP-UX
Why would you want to use RPM on a non-Linux system ? It may seem strange
as all these environments already provide a native package format.
Let me just explain how we got such an exotic idea.
I am a Unix system engineer. The platform I am working on contains some HP-UX,
Solaris, AIX, and Linux servers. Historically, on this platform, the developers
delivered their software in the form of a gzipped tar file. But this format
is very poor as it just allows to gather a set of files into a single file,
and the need of a smarter package format quickly arose.
The question was then to choose the package format(s) we would use. Each
OS provides its native package format, which are incompatible. So, using the
native package format for each OS would have forced the development and system
teams to learn how to build and use all these formats, which is quite impractical.
Having eliminated this option, we searched for a format to be used everywhere.
Only two of the native package formats exist outside of their native OS : SD-UX
(HP-UX) and RPM (RPM is not really available in precompiled form on every non-Linux
systems but, as it is open-source, it can be compiled). SD-UX was discarded
for several reasons, the main ones being that it is closed-source, expensive,
and its future is not clear.
RPM remained alone with several benefits :
- It is easy to teach to the development and system administration teams,
- It is widely used and known. Most people we hire already know it,
- Combined with yum, it makes installation procedures very easy.
We didn't consider other Linux package formats, like apt, because the only
Linux distribution we use is RedHat's RHEL.
Once the decision is made, we 'just' had to build RPM/YUM packages for all
the environments. Although RPM is quite portable since version 5 (version 4
was very Linux-specific), this is not the case for YUM, whose port took a lot
of time. This is due to several factors like poor documentation, complex dependencies,
the need for a dedicated python interpreter... Actually, I wouldn't be surprised
if it was the first time somebody builds it on a non-Linux system.
Well, the work is over now. Just follow the rest of this document and you
too will be able to provide unified package installation/management procedures
on all your Linux and non-Linux environments.
It will bring you the admiration of your {boss|colleagues|neighbours|wife|children|dog},
and, who knows, an appreciable boost in your career
Re: RPM on HP-UX
- From: Tim Mooney <mooney dogbert cc ndsu NoDak edu>
- To: rpm-list redhat com
- Subject: Re: RPM on HP-UX
- Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 15:45:36 -0500 (CDT)
In regard to: Re: RPM on HP-UX, Martin Arpon said (at 5:26pm on Jun 12, 2003):
>> See the message that I sent to the rpm mailing list on April 9th of 2003,
>> with the subject
>>
>> Re: Building rpm-4.1 on Tru64
>>
>> The problem you're running into is exactly the same one. You can fix it
>> by modifying RPM's misc/glob.h in the manner I describe in that email.
>>
>> >Rpm-list mailing list
>> >[email protected]
>> >https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
>
>Hey! That did the trick!!
Don't seem so surprised. ;-)
> But, unfortunately, the compilation passed that point
>but I 'm getting new problems. I don 't want to give up but I 'm also starting
>to think that maybe RPM isn 't meant for HP-UX.
You said earlier that you configured with
--disable-nls
My guess is that's why you're seeing this problem.
I recommend you start with a freshly un-tarred copy of RPM, and this
time *don't* --disable-nls. Instead, fix the issue you were running into
that caused you to try that in the first place.
That issue is very likely that RPM's configure either didn't find the
necessary header file(s) *or* it didn't find the necessary library. To
fix that issue, you need to locate where your versions of `libintl.h' and
`libintl.sl' or `libintl.so' (I'm not sure what HP-UX 11.x (which is ELF)
uses for shared library names -- 10.x and earlier used .sl as the shared
lib extension).
You said you installed GNU gettext and GNU iconv from the Porting Centre.
That means it probably got installed somewhere under /opt. I'll assume
that the gettext stuff is under
/opt/gnu/gettext
(it may not be, in which case you need to change the paths in the env
vars I show below).
Since you probably need both iconv and libintl to build RPM (libintl
probably requires GNU iconv), you would therefore do something like
this at the shell prompt (I'm showing Bourne/Korn/Bash syntax, if you
use the C shell or derivates, you're on your own):
CPPFLAGS='-I/opt/gnu/gettext/include -I/opt/gnu/iconv/include'
CFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS"
LDFLAGS='-L/opt/gnu/gettext/lib -L/opt/gnu/iconv/lib'
export CPPFLAGS CFLAGS LDFLAGS
./configure .....your options here....
That should be enough so that configure can find GNU gettext. Remember
to change the paths shown above if the Porting Center is using a different
path.
>It 's a pitty, because it 'd be the perfect solution for me to build once and
>install in Linux, AIX and HP-UX.
Be advised that HP-UX (at least through 10.x, and probably 11.x) doesn't
allow you to overwrite a binary that's being executed, so you need some
special glue in RPM to deal with the ETXTBUSY error that RPM gets when it
tries to update a binary. That glue might be in recent RPM or you might
still need a patch. Either way, RPM is going to leave old binaries around
on your filesystem that you will want to periodically find and delete.
>Now it 's giving me "syntax error before ';' token" in
>lib/poptALL.c line 338:
>
>#if !defined(__LCLINT__)
> (void) setlocale(LC_ALL, "" );
>
> (void) bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR); <-- line 338
> (void) textdomain(PACKAGE);
>#endif
>
>I 've tried to find where PACKAGE is defined, but I don 't understand it. It 's
>defined in various config.h as the name of the package but nothing related with
>this prototype.
Tim
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devshlom
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| Jun 15, 2008 12:40:08 GMT |
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Hi,
I have to create an installation package in HP-UX.
In AIX I used the RPM toolbox for that (in this way I used the same
spec file I used for the other platforms...)
Does HP-UX have something similar?
tx,
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Duncan Edmonstone
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| Jun 15, 2008 12:50:50 GMT
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| although that has nothing to do with RPM... |
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devshlom |
| Jun 15, 2008 15:28:49 GMT
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| Hi,
can you post me the exact link for my systm:
HP-UX hpux B.11.23 U 9000/800
The rpm depot I found there couldn't be install on my env.
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James R. Ferguson
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| Jun 15, 2008 15:43:30 GMT
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| Hi Shlom:
The FAQ notes that "LRE is a solution for Intel IPF 64 bit Linux
binaries only."
[ LRE = Linux runtime environment ]
Your machine is *not* an Itanium (IPF) server. Rather it is a PA-RISC
one as denoted from:
HP-UX hpux B.11.23 U 9000/800
It would appear that you are out of luck using this approach.
Regards!
...JRF...
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Dennis Handly
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| Jun 15, 2008 15:51:35 GMT
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| >JRF: It would appear that you are out of luck
using this approach.
Right. And would cause devshlom's customers to first install the
RPM software. Where swinstall in on every HP-UX system.
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devshlom |
| Jun 15, 2008 15:59:49 GMT
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| didn't notice the itanium issue....
so -
what do you say?
I must creat pure HPUX installation package?
do I have a way to pass this issue (I'm a pro in rpm - now I'll
have to learn new installation packaging in a very short time...)
if so,
where can I find a quick start for this?
tx.
shlom
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James R. Ferguson
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| Jun 15, 2008 16:05:48 GMT
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devshlom |
| Jun 16, 2008 07:57:45 GMT
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| hi Kenan,
As I mentioned I'm short on time and this is the reason I'm looking
for the rpm solution.
I don't have a problem to force my customers to install rpm - but
I must find a toolbox that comes from HP for that...
Do you know for some rpm tool that will work fine on HPUX 11.23
PARisc?
tx
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Kenan Erdey
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| Jun 16, 2008 08:42:06 GMT
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| Hi,
Sorry i don't know :)
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devshlom |
| Jun 18, 2008 08:30:49 GMT
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For my sytem I can't use the rpm toolbox.
I will open a new thread for packaging a sw via the SD-UX.
tx,
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