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 _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list