Re: [OE-core] RPM 6 in Wrynose

[Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>]

On 3/11/26 20:00, Matthew Ware (mattware) wrote:
> Hi Alex,
> 
> Fair question! My team are looking at using yocto 6.0 when it's released, and 
> rpm6 has some features we're interested in. If rpm 6 makes it into yocto 6.0 we 

I'm still working on upgrading to 6, here is the latest tmp code:

$ git fetch https://github.com/robertlinux/yocto rbt/rpm_tmp

Currently, it can't provides the pkgconfig files correctly when the pc files are
/usr/share/pkgconfig/, any help is appreciated, for example, help to do more
testing to find the corner cases.

// Robert

> can start taking advantage of those features, and I want to plan for that :). 
> Similar with dnf 5.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *From:* Alexander Kanavin <alex.kanavin@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 10, 2026 5:26 PM
> *To:* Matthew Ware (mattware) <mattware@cisco.com>
> *Cc:* openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org <openembedded- 
> core@lists.openembedded.org>; Elliot Sparling (esparlin) <esparlin@cisco.com>; 
> Robert Yang <liezhi.yang@windriver.com>; Mathieu Dubois-Briand <mathieu.dubois- 
> briand@bootlin.com>; adam.duskett@amarulasolutions.com 
> <adam.duskett@amarulasolutions.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [OE-core] RPM 6 in Wrynose
> 
> On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 at 18:24, Matthew Ware (mattware)
> <mattware@cisco.com> wrote:
>  > Also, since we're here: is there any plan to move to DNF 5? I see Wrynose is 
> staying on 4.x, but wondered if there was a plan/aim for DNF 5.
> 
> Yes, there are WIP patches for it too. Adam is working on it.
> 
> I have to ask: can you give us some context? What makes you interested
> in having these versions in Yocto?
> 
> Alex