Re: Compiling rpm statically?

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On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 06:55:14PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 14:01:36 PM -0400, Jeff Johnson (jbj@xxxxxxxxxx)
> wrote:
> 
> > Edit Makefile.am, uncomment the -all-static...
> 
> OK, thanks, we'll try this.
>  
> > You might also be better off with the rpm support in busybox if you
> > are trying to creata a rescue mode disk.
> 
> Sorry, I'm not sure I follow you here. What we need to do is fit in
> one or two floppies a shell script which asks questions and then
> installs selected FCn packages with the corresponding rpm static
> binary. We use busybox to provide all the commands needed by our shell
> script(s). Said this, may I ask you to elaborate a bit more on your
> statement above?
> 

There is support (albeit limited) for unpacking *.rpm pkgs within
busybox. The support is limited (i.e. won't add pkg headers to an rpmdb,
no query/verify, etc) but is sufficient to install files from a
*.rpm onto the file system.

73 de Jeff

-- 
Jeff Johnson	ARS N3NPQ
jbj@xxxxxxxxxx (jbj@xxxxxxx)
Chapel Hill, NC


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