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

[James]

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 18:03:40 -0500
Devon <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Monday 04 March 2002 12:45 pm, James wrote:
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> > 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... ;)
> 
OK I stand chastised .... but I did say the thought was weird....

> 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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