hi Mike Tremaine wrote: > Yes RPM is part of the devel RPMS tarball. What confused me was it was NOT > part > of the ISO. So it seeems by default that rpm is not installed on a new 2.1 > installation.
aaah, ok. i misunderstood you and then i did not understand as well why this is so. i investigated and found why. maybe i should include in some sort of documentation :) some base packages which are necessary to install other packages are part of the bootstrap tar.gz, which the installer simply decompress before installation. this solves a chick and egg problem we have before installation, since we need a minimal system which has rpm installed in order to install further rpm packages (like rpm itself). during creation of the iso this bootstrap tar.gz will be generated with the current rpm's by installing all packages needed by rpm within an empty jail. thus, we no longer need to include that rpms. > I assume smart has no dependency on rpm? Obviously I'm just dealing in theory > here since I have not sat down and installed a fresh 2.1, I still have to > figure out how to safely get from 2.0 to 2.1 since I do not have directly > access to the production box [unless I want to drive 20miles which I do not > ;)] i see. well, the easiest way is to create a local smart repository on a webserver. put all devel rpms (includes the lacking base rpms) into a directory reachable by http, add the rpms included with the iso and call "createrepo": http://linux.duke.edu/projects/metadata/ then configure the smart channel on the firewall: smart channel --add efw-repository name=efw-repository type=rpm-md baseurl='http://where.your.repository/resides' and update: smart update smart upgrade peter -- :: e n d i a n :: open source - open minds :: peter warasin :: http://www.endian.it :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
