Installing RPM from scratch - how?

[Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp fm>]

Hi all,

I have just tried to install RPM from scratch on a Solaris v2.6 machine.
I've done the whole ./configure ; make ; make install thing. I've run
rpm --initdb and this has worked fine.

Now what?

According to the INSTALL instructions, I need to set up RPM so that the
existing applications on the machine can be found to satisfy the
dependancies. It suggests that a script called find-provides.sh be used
to do this, but neglects to mention how. It is of course academic -
find-provides.sh does not exist anyway. Another file called
find-provides.perl does exist, but all the paths encoded within it look
absolutely nothing like the installation directories that RPM has
installed in /usr/local.

What is the real way to do this?

Regards,
Graham
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