as a followup to one of my previous posts, i just want to verify that i've got the right set of options for building an NFS-mountable root filesystem for a non-x86 system. in short, i want to create a small root filesystem for a PPC board and i'd like to *primarily* use rpm to control the inclusion and removal of packages. what i've come up with, once i manually create a skeleton root directory is: $ rpm --upgrade/--install --root <filesystem root dir> --dbpath <filesystem database> --nodeps --ignorearch blah.ppc.rpm i haven't had a chance to test this yet, but the rationale is 1) keep the mountable filesystem rpm DB separate from the server DB, and also out of the root filesystem itself (for space reasons) 2) --nodeps, since we'll be starting with a hand-rolled skeletal root FS, so officially, some of the contents won't be in the RPM database 3) --ignorearch, obviously since this is non-x86 based i'm sure my first test will point out any flaws, but are there any tricks others can suggest from their vast experience? it's early, not thinking clearly, need coffee, nothing but decaf ... crap. rday _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
