On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 09:45:39AM -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!) Rpm is a particularly sucky self dependency. One generation of rpm inherits certain settings from it's ancestor so bootstrapping only from sources is a royally sucky. Ralf
