[Ltib] Where does rootfs/var/lib/rpm and content come from?

[Peter Barada]

I'm building up a YAFFS2 rootfs for OMAP3, and I'm a bit confoozed.

I see in my resultant rootfs (and rootfs.tmp staging area), the directory var/lib/rpm that contains about 4MB of stuff:

address@hidden:~/work/logic/svn/LTIB/trunk/ltib-torpedo$ ls -l rootfs/var/lib/rpm
total 3916
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   335872 2009-09-08 16:22 Basenames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Conflictname
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter   24576 2009-09-08 16:34 __db.001
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter 1318912 2009-09-08 16:34 __db.002
-rw-r--r-- 1 peter peter  663552 2009-09-08 16:34 __db.003
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    77824 2009-09-08 16:22 Dirnames
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root   352256 2009-09-08 16:22 Filemd5s
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Group
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root     8192 2009-09-08 16:22 Installtid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Name
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root  1466368 2009-09-08 16:22 Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Providename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Provideversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Requirename
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root     8192 2009-09-08 16:22 Requireversion
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Sha1header
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Sigmd5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root    12288 2009-09-08 16:22 Triggername
address@hidden:~/work/logic/svn/LTIB/trunk/ltib-torpedo$ 

However, the following command on the host:

for i in `find rpm/RPMS -name '*.rpm'`; do rpm --root `pwd`/rootfs -ql -p $i; done

doesn't show /var/lib/rpm, or any of the files in that directory as belonging to any RPM.

So my question is:

1) Where does rootfs/var/lib/rpm and content come from?
2) Is it desperately necessary or can I strip it out to save space?

Thanks in advance.

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Peter Barada <address@hidden>
Logic Product Development, Inc.