On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Except for perl, those are used by the %post script that converts
> a rpm-2.5 /etc/rpmrc file to a rpm-3.0 macro file...
Hmm. Might be worth the time to create an "RPM lite", stripped down for
package installation and removal, without all the building
John Summerfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
> What does rpm do that requires gawk, fileutils, textutils, sh-utils,
> mktemp, and perl /usr/bin/perl?
Except for perl, those are used by the %post script that converts
a rpm-2.5 /etc/rpmrc file to a rpm-3.0 macro file...
Bill
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On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
> What does rpm do that requires gawk, fileutils, textutils, sh-utils,
> mktemp, and perl /usr/bin/perl?
If you look in /usr/lib/rpm, you see the scripts used for determining
the dependencies of packages, as well as other things determined during
the
On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
> What does rpm do that requires gawk, fileutils, textutils, sh-utils,
> mktemp, and perl /usr/bin/perl?
>
> How this affect the creation of and use of recovery disks? Does a recovery
> disk now have to be a CD or some other removable bootable stora
