RE: Dependency on /bin/sh

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On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:
> 
> > Hello Panu,
> >     I think I have perhaps not clearly conveyed my problem. I 
> > do have /bin/sh on the target. It is just that RPM does not
> > know it because the RPM database is empty.  I just want to 
> > make RPM not check for the presence of /bin/sh in 
> > the database. Thanks for your time.
> 
> I've had this situation: a Linux From Scratch built system
> which needs to have the ability to install packages using
> rpm, the only answer I came up with was to create a dummy 
> package that Provides /bin/sh.  My script which creates
> this system does (in a chroot):
> 
> rpm --initdb
> rpm --install --nodeps dummy.rpm
> 
> And I have no further problems....

Indeed .. I don't think there's a way to turn of scriptlet dependency 
generation. By doing the above you wont be fighting against rpm every inch 
of the way to get packages installed.

	- Panu -


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