[Rule-list] Re: small utility disk (cfdisk info)

[James]

Devon,
   Have you ever played with ezrpm?  It does what rpm does as far as
installing but in a very limited form.

Usage:
  ./ezrpm [filenames] {--gui | --nogui} {--noinstall} {--force}
{--forcedeps}
        | --help
    (Installs .rpms, resolving dependencies from install dirs or $RPMPATH.
    If an RPMPATH item is prefixed with [VolName], prompt user for volume
    VolName).
      --gui/--nogui: Force default interface to GUI or console mode
      --noinstall  : Display files that would be installed, without
installing --force  : Pass --force                       to rpm program
(force install)
      --forcedeps  : Check dependencies even on already installed RPMs
      --help       : Display this message

As you can see the --nodeps options -q etc aren't there but it DOES
install rpms and since it weighs in at an un-hefty 46k it may be the
answer to getting the config scripts in an rpm to run.  Since the bzip2
file with source and compiled binary is only 37k I'm taking the liberty of
attaching it to a second offline e-mail. Just for fun I installed 4 or 5
rpms on my box using it and so far.... nothing got broken.

James 


On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 00:30:45 -0500
Devon <devon at tuxfan.homeip.net> wrote:

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> On Monday 04 March 2002 03:16 am, Devon wrote:
> 
> > > Devon...will the 'cfdisk' binary out of a running system be of any
> > > help....I can attach it to an email if you wish...its only
> > > 52k....gordo
> >
> > Probably not. It needs to be statically linked. At present we don't
> > have room to include the c libraries it requires.
> 
> Hi Gordon,
> Because you asked.... ;)
> 
> The latest disk image includes cfdisk statically linked against uClibc.
> Statically linked and stripped it weighs in at 131k. Once the file
system
> is gzipped, it doesn't take up too much space. I also moved the scripts
> so that you don't mount your new root file system on top of them.
> 
> http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/miniconda-V0.0.5.img
> 
> I thought a simple text editor would be nice to have as well. vi is
> great, but not for everyone. It can be intimidating to a newbie, for
> example. So, with that in mind, and the fact that I could now use 
> ncurses support within the uClibc library, I included 'pico' (The pine 
> mail editor)
> 
> I've tested both applications only minimally, but they appear to work as
> expected. Since I've never used cfdisk, I took the fact that it loaded
> and allowed me to create and write a partition table to mean that it
> worked properly.
> 
> I still have 101K available for future requests! ;)
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> - -D
> 
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