Peter Warasin wrote: > 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.
So for the records here is a list of packages that get installed from the bootstrap.tar.gz. [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpm]$ strings Name rpm-libs sqlite shadow-utils coreutils bash beecrypt findutils pcre bzip2-libs neon openssl mktemp expat grep tzdata termcap libgcc ncurses libtermcap libstdc++ elfutils-libelf popt libselinux zlib glibc glibc-common Anyone who is trying to go from 2.0 to 2.1 with out reinstalling should make sure these get updated from the Devel Tarball also. -Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
