On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:57:24PM -0800, Mike McDonald wrote: > I was thinking of what the MINIMUM set of RPMs you needed installed > so you could bootstrap a system up from sources, not what's the > minimum needed to recompile any arbitrary RPM. Really depends on what you want to do. Many packages detect other packages or features of other packages. This builds a big evil network of dependencies which make bootstrapping somewhat hard. It's a good idea to start with an as complete installation as possible. > With less than 150 files installed in a root file system, I can > install the bin-utils, gcc, make, and glibc RPMs. From there, I should > be able to begin cross compiling the other basic RPMs for a system. > That's my ultimate goal. Ralf
