>Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 04:10:26 -0800 >From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com> >To: Mike McDonald <mikemac@mikemac.com> >Subject: Re: Cross compiling RPMs > >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. I want to do just the opposite. I want to start with the minimum set of installed binaries and build a complete binary distribution from its sources. (That means finding the root of the dependency graph and starting there, assuming there actually is one. It isn't necessarily a single rpm. People like to make circular dependancies!) Mike McDonald mikemac@mikemac.com
