Re: Installing RPM from scratch - how?

[Graham Leggett <minfrin sharp fm>]

Adrian Reber wrote:

> > 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 exists on my solaris2.6 system  (without the ".sh")
> 
> and
> 
> echo * | find-provides
> 
> did work for me perfectly...

Which version did you use? I get this:

[10:11am] root@dsnstar:/tmp/rpm-3.0.5# find . | grep find-provides
./scripts/find-provides.perl

I am assuming find-provides is part of RPM and not part of Solaris - or
am I wrong?

The find-rovides.perl script has completely wrong paths in it :(

Regards,
Graham
--