The current RPM build has a db dependency that is too strict
(same goes for gnorpm).
db-3.2.9 is a plug-in replacement for db 3.2.3h (sans the scary bugs),
and works fine with rpm (in fact, it's what Redhat uses, and I've been using
3.2.9 for months now, no trouble.)
Index: rpm-4.0.4-r2.ebuild
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RCS file: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-arch/rpm/rpm-4.0.4-r2.ebuild,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 rpm-4.0.4-r2.ebuild
--- rpm-4.0.4-r2.ebuild 2002/05/30 02:43:32 1.2
+++ rpm-4.0.4-r2.ebuild 2002/06/23 21:00:37
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-4.0.x/${P}.tar.gz"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.rpm.org/"
-RDEPEND="=sys-libs/db-3.2.3h-r4
+RDEPEND="=sys-libs/db-3.2*
>=sys-libs/zlib-1.1.3
>=sys-apps/bzip2-1.0.1
>=dev-libs/popt-1.6.3"
cvs server: Diffing files
