Re: [Rule-list] Potential low mem boot disk/installer

[Devon]

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On Monday 04 March 2002 12:45 pm, James wrote:

> Weird thought here.  If the only package you run rpm2cpio on is rpm
> itself.  Once it's installed on the HDD then you call it from there to
> install the package list, the last item you install is rpm with the
> --force option (to get it into the rpm dbase).  Actually there are ways
> to create an rpm dbase (FreeBSD Slackware etc use it.) when there is
> none, but the pre/post scripts are needed.

If only... ;)

It isn't quite as simple as that. You'd also need at least the libraries 
and utilities that rpm relies on. Plus a shell, and all that the shell 
required. Plus all that the required utilities relied on... It gets 
complicated.

For example:
$ rpm -q --requires rpm
gawk
fileutils
textutils
mktemp
shadow-utils
popt = 1.6.3
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
/bin/sh
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
ld-linux.so.2
libbz2.so.1
libc.so.6
libpopt.so.0
librpm-4.0.3.so
librpmbuild-4.0.3.so
librpmdb-4.0.3.so
librpmio-4.0.3.so
libz.so.1
/bin/sh
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)

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