[RULE] FWD: Re: Compiling rpm statically?

[Franz Zahaurek]

"M. Fioretti" <mfioretti> writes:

> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 19:41:58 PM +0200, Franz Zahaurek  fzk at fzk.at 
> wrote:
>  
>> When I noticed that rpm has become one of the busybox applets I
>> tried to take it as a replacement for rpm.gz on disk2.
>> uClibc-0.9.20 + busybox-1.00-rc3 with a kernel 2.6.8.1.
>
> Can you post the URL of the scripts you changed?

Please take a look at: http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/

Locally I used CVS to track the changes I made.  These are based
on slinky v0.3.97b-vumbox which I got from Ingo.  Basicly I changed
setup.sh, the messages at the slinky-boot, a new kernel, busybox and
added one messagebox with dialog to see if it works.

In detail:

*) setup.sh to use localized keymaps.  This is documented in:
http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/ There is a readymade disk1 with kernel 2.6.7
and busybox-0.60.5 at:
http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/slinky-v0.3.97b-vumbox.img to test this
change.

*) later I used the now actual kernel 2.6.8.1.  See its .config at:
http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/kernel-2.6.8.1-config  This can be used with
make oldconfig.  And the resulting kernel itself at
http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/kernel-2.6.8.1-bzImage - use it as a
replacement for vmlinuz-rule.

Didn't pay much attention at the modules for NFS-Installation as I
cannot test it here at home.  But I think anything other than
cdrom-installation doesn't really work at all - does it?

*) compiled uClibc-0.9.20 as described in "Making Linux Installation
Disks for Fun and Profit" at:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~lennartb/installdisk.pdf

*) compiled a new busybox-1.00-rc3 with the above uClibc.  See its
.config at: http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/busybox-1.00-rc3-config or the
resulting busybox itself at http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/busybox-1.00-rc3
and the list of applets http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/busybox.links-1.00-rc3

*) compiled dialog with uClibc and used it for a message-box at begin
of the installation.  The dialog-binary:
http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/dialog_1.0-20040721-1

*) everything put together as disk1 and disk2 can be found at:
http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/slinky-fzk01-disk1.img and
http://www.fzk.at/SLINKY/slinky-fzk01-disk2.img

>
>> Functionality of busybox-rpm is very limited by now - too limited as
>> far as I have seen.  E.g. it doesn't replace files at all; there is
>> no install rpm first.  The remaining installation could be done with
>> the new rpm.
>
> Have you tried this?
> [...]

No, that's only an idea.

Bye,
Franz
-- 
Franz Zahaurek                        fzk at fzk.at
Gymnasiumstr. 26/7                    http://www.fzk.at
1180 Wien

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