On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:15:41PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: > I'm an embedded systems developer and would like to port the following > to my OS: > 1) RPM (specifically for the rpmbuild component - yes I'm lazy) > 2) YUM (so I can simplify the updating and repair of my devices) > > The system is a small (8.1MB) GNU/Linux OS based on Slackware (not my > choice - boss likes Slackware not me) > > Any thoughts??? It's less about "porting" and more about deps. RPM is C, but will have deps. Yum is python. If you have python, it should run. If you don't, then it won't. If you're looking to keep it light, then you can ship yum (and python deps) in uncompiled form. -Michael -- Michael D. Stenner mstenner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ECE Department and Optical Sciences Center 520-626-1619 University of Arizona ECE 524G
