On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 11:51:44AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > What I do on HP-UX is to populate /etc/rpmrc with provides of what > already exists on the system. > > File /etc/rpmrc: > > Provides: /bin/sh /bin/bash > > And so on. That list can get rather long. Everything on one line. > Heh. Provides: in /etc/rpmrc was yanked in rpm-4.0, pretty much identifies what you are using. A virtual package with Provides: /bin/sh and more is far more workable and flexible. Yes, you need to generate the spec file and build the package, rpm has 2 scripts to do so for many years now. > The second thing you can do, for your own private rpms, is to turn off > automatic dependency building in the rpm spec file. Then the rpm you > build won't have any dependencies other than the ones you specify > manually. I think because of the way you are building your system > this is the best answer for you. You don't have the system installed > by rpm so you can't really use it for normal dependency checking > anyway. > > AutoReqProv: no > Well, you can use rpm2cpio for the same purpose too. 73 de Jeff -- Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ jbj@xxxxxxxxxx (jbj@xxxxxxx) Chapel Hill, NC _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
