Hi, > * perl sux equally as much as python ;-) Maybe even more :) > >the goals are very similar to mach, but mach uses apt which made it not > >suitable as basis for the ABE > > > I suggested to mach developers quite some time ago that --aid was more than > enough to populate an empty chroot from rpm packages. Thanks for the > manifest > proof that, indeed, --aid is sufficient. If all you want to do is populate an empty chroot then it is. For a system like this you need more. There's no good way to resolve dependencies using only rpm. And when you are trying to do more than just "build against this known set of packages I have locally on my hard disk" it's insufficient. Thomas Dave/Dina : future TV today ! - http://www.davedina.org/ <-*- thomas (dot) apestaart (dot) org -*-> when he died all he left us was alone <-*- thomas (at) apestaart (dot) org -*-> URGent, best radio on the net - 24/7 ! - http://urgent.fm/