Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@xxxxxxxxxx>@redhat.com on 07/28/2004 09:02:12 AM replied: > > 1/ How can I manually populate bash into the database? > > You have a few options - if you have all the packages you can populate the rpmdb using > > rpm --justdb --noscripts --notriggers bash.rpm > > If the system has been installed from the rpms, but has no rpmdb this > is probably the best approach. To figure out what is on the > target you could create an rpmdb and use verification to figure > out what's installed. > > rpm --dbpath /path/to/my/db -V package > > Else you can look at the virtual provides scripts. > > /usr/lib/rpm/vpgk-provides.sh for an idea how to create a few skeleton > rpms for a non-rpm UNIX system. No, unfortunately the system wasn't (apparently) installed via RPM, but I will check out the skeleton rpms... thanks. > > BTW: > > > > 2/ I also don't even know why my RPM is dependent on bash. > > I didn't make the dependency. Is it built into RPM itself? > > Do you have any %pre,%post scripts or %triggers? The shell requirement is probably coming > automagically from those. I have the sections defined, but they are empty. Maybe I shouldn't even have the keywords, if I'm not going to use them? _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
