[RULE] no recompilation of rpm needed?

[smooge at mindspring.com]

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, M. Fioretti wrote:

>Hello,
>Just got this from the rpm list:
>
>>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
>
>Basically the suggestion is to install the real rpm on disk with the
>pretend version embedded in busybox, and then use that rpm package,
>the real one, to install everything else and rebuild the RPM database.
>
>In this case there would be no need at all to recompile some custom
>version of rpm for slinky.
>
>What do you think?
>

I think the main issue that may come up is that a lot of RPM/RH/SuSE is 
being aimed at mainline hardware versus lowend hardware. The version of 
RPM that you going to use is still going to use the latest glibc/db4 and 
threading code that really need more umph(CPU/memory) than a low-end box 
has. It may be better to stick/branch with an older version of RPM and 
just use it as the base for compiling for all the packages.

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