lfs-rpmify/README.md

Building RPM in LFS 12.2

This git is for the scripts needed to build the dependencies for the RPM Package Manager (RPM) within a LFS 12.2 system. This is ‘Phase Three’ in THE-PLAN.md.

First I am attempting to build RPM 4.18.x as I successfully built that version of RPM on LFS 11.3. However that version of RPM is EOL so once I get it building I will not install it but instead look to see if I can the modern version of RPM to build. I believe they changed the build system to CMake so there will almost be some additional dependencies needed.

With dependencies through Lua built, RPM 4.18.2 builds in LFS 12.2 but there are still three needed components for a complete RPM environment:

1. GnuPG (critical, needed to sign packages, important for package security)
2. debugedit (critical, needed for debug packages)
3. fakechroot (needed to run the test suite after building RPM)

GnuPG itself has a lot of dependencies, one of which is OpenLDAP. Hopefully I can just build the shared libraries, those should be all that are needed.

While not a strict dependency, GnuTLS is a recommended dependency as is pinentry but pinentry seems to be runtime so I probably will not build that at least not until the RPM bootstrap is complete.

GnuTLS however will be used for many other things too, so I will consider it and its dependencies as needed in this phase.

Dependency One: UnZip

Justification: Needed to build SQLite 3 (to unpack the documentation). No build dependencies outside of LFS.

• Script: 01-unzip.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Two: SQLite3

Justification: Needed to build RPM itself. Depends upon UnZip for documentation.

• Script: 02-sqlite3.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Three: libgpg-error

Justification: Needed to build libgcrypt, libassuan, and libksba. No build dependencies outside of LFS.

• Script: 03-libgpg-error.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Four: libgcrypt

Justification: Needed to build RPM itself and GnuPG. Depends upon libgpg-error.

• Script: 04-libgcrypt.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Five: popt

Justification: Needed to build RPM itself. No build dependencies outside of LFS.

• Script: 05-popt.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Six: ICU

Justification: Needed to build libxml2. No build dependencies outside of LFS.

• Script: 06-icu.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Seven: libxml2

Justification: Needed for libarchive. Depends on ICU.

• Script: 07-libxml2.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Eight: LZO

Justification: Needed for libarchive. No build dependencies outside of LFS.

• Script: 08-lzo.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Nine: nettle

Justification: Needed for libarchive. No build dependencies outside of LFS.

• Script: 09-nettle.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Ten: pcre2

Justification: Needed for libarchive. No build dependencies outside of LFS.

• Script: 10-pcre2.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Eleven: libarchive

Justification: Needed to build RPM. Depends upon libxml2, LZO, Nettle, and pcre2.

• Script: 11-libarchive.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Twelve: Lua

Justification: Needed to build RPM. No build dependencies outside of LFS.

• Script: 12-lua.sh
• Status: Script Works

Dependency Thirteen: libassuan

Justification: Needed to build GnuPG. Requires libgpg-error.

• Script: 13-libassuan.sh
• Status: Script Untested

Dependency Fourteen: libksba

Justification: Needed to build GnuPG. Requires libgpg-error.

• Script: 14-libksba.sh
• Status: Script Untested

Dependency Fifteen: npth

Justification: Needed to build GnuPG. No dependencies outside of LFS.

• Script: 15-npth.sh
• Status: Script Untested