Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] rpm: 4.20.1 -> 6.0.1

Alexander Kanavin
2026-01-19T12:54:40Z

On Mon, 19 Jan 2026 at 07:09, <liezhi.yang@windriver.com> wrote:
> - 0001-macros.in-Set-_rpmformat-to-4.patch
> Fixed:
> error: External dependency generator is incompatible with v6 packages

This one is creating technical debt. I can imagine support for v4
packages will be dropped at some not-too-distant point. We've had this
deprecation warning for a long time, but it looks like the matter is
becoming more pressing now. Can you look into it?

> - 0001-macros.in-Set-_pkgverify_level-to-digest-as-RCPM-4.2.patch
> Fixed:
> GPG check FAILED
>
> * Add scdoc-native to DEPENDS to fix do_configure error for both native and
> target:
> Could not find SCDOC using the following names: scdoc

Is this a hard dependency? Is there a cmake switch to turn it off?

> Note, both target and native need scdoc-native.
>
> * Add bash to RDEPENDS:${PN} to fix:
> ERROR: rpm-1_6.0.1-r0 do_package_qa: QA Issue: /usr/lib/rpm/rpm-setup-autosign
> contained in package rpm requires /bin/bash, but no providers found in
> RDEPENDS:rpm? [file-rdeps]

All things that depend on bash are specifically placed into
${PN}-build, so that the main package will not pull in gplv3 licensed
items. I can imagine this will fail in no-gpl3 tests too.

> -EXTRA_OECMAKE:append:class-native = " -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR:PATH=/etc -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR:PATH=/var"
> +EXTRA_OECMAKE:append:class-native = " -DCMAKE_INSTALL_SYSCONFDIR:PATH=/etc -DCMAKE_INSTALL_LOCALSTATEDIR:PATH=/var -DLIBELF_FOUND=False"

Addition of LIBELF_FOUND=False is not explained. Also I think it can
be easily provided?

Otherwise, looks good, thanks for working on it!

Alex