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Subject: rpm and perl and ...
From: John Summerfield <summer@OS2.ami.com.au>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 13:50:33 +0800


[summer@possum /misc]$ rpm -q --requires rpm
gawk
fileutils
textutils
sh-utils
mktemp
bzip2 >= 0.9.0c-2
/bin/sh
ld-linux.so.2
libbz2.so.0
libc.so.6
libdb.so.2
libz.so.1
librpm.so.0
/bin/bash
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/perl
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
libdb.so.2(GLIBC_2.0)
[summer@possum /misc]$


What does rpm do that requires gawk, fileutils, textutils, sh-utils, 
mktemp, and perl /usr/bin/perl?

How this affect the creation of and use of recovery disks? Does a recovery 
disk now have to be a CD or some other removable bootable storage??


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Subject: Re: rpm and perl and ...
From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 16:13:07 +0100 (CET)


On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, John Summerfield wrote:

> What does rpm do that requires gawk, fileutils, textutils, sh-utils, 
> mktemp, and perl /usr/bin/perl?
> 
> How this affect the creation of and use of recovery disks? Does a recovery 
> disk now have to be a CD or some other removable bootable storage??

You can just ignore the dependencies for recovery disks. Most of them are
required only for very specific functionality (i.e. mktemp is used while
compiling packages).

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Subject: Re: rpm and perl and ...
From: Jeremy Katz <katzj@linuxpower.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 08:01:25 -0800


On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, John Summerfield wrote:

> What does rpm do that requires gawk, fileutils, textutils, sh-utils, 
> mktemp, and perl /usr/bin/perl?

If you look in /usr/lib/rpm, you see the scripts used for determining
the dependencies of packages, as well as other things determined during
the rpm build process (what is provided, etc).  Some of these are in
perl, some use awk, etc. 
 
> How this affect the creation of and use of recovery disks? Does a recovery 
> disk now have to be a CD or some other removable bootable storage??

Well if you plan on building rpms from your rescue disk, then yeah ;)
Otherwise, you shouldn't have a problem putting rpm on there without the
aforementioned packages.

Jeremy

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Subject: Re: rpm and perl and ...
From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 11:11:44 -0500


John Summerfield (summer@OS2.ami.com.au) said: 
> What does rpm do that requires gawk, fileutils, textutils, sh-utils, 
> mktemp, and perl /usr/bin/perl?

Except for perl, those are used by the %post script that converts
a rpm-2.5 /etc/rpmrc file to a rpm-3.0 macro file...

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