Thanks Michael, I am just wondering, were you able to install distro packages using rpm after reinstalling bootstrap packages you build. Don't I need to build all the packages I want to install because of distro dependencies. Correct me if I am wrong. On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 12:56 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On 01/10/2005 04:19:03 PM, Jain, Nilesh wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > > > > > I have a system which has basic OS installed and few packages not > > using > > rpm. I want to build rpm database on that machine, so that I can > > install > > rpm packages in future. > > > > > > > > Any pointers in on this will be highly appreciable. Has somebody on > > this > > mailing done similar in past, please share your experience. > > I did this with LFS - > > the way I did it was to bootstrap the install with rpm. > Build rpm, then build rpm packages for the files that were previously > installed w/o rpm - and --nodeps install them. > > Once you have a few key packages, like bash, glibc, binutils, and a > couple others (I think there were six) the rest is almost cake, once > you get the order right. > > The hard part is writing all the spec files - you want to duplicate > exactly what was put in from the tarball when built from source code. > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
