Fedora from Mike Barnes

[Scott Hempstead]

Great information--Thank you.  I'll start plugging
away at it and hopefully with a few late nights, I to
can be an FC2 on Alpha resource.

Thanks again

SH
--- Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc <achapkis at dls.net> wrote:

>   My process was more complicated. Of course there's
> an argument to the rpm command (has to be a package
> name(s)).
> Trying to install everything without checking for
> dependencies (rpm -Uh --nodeps *.rpm) will result in
> a lot of 
> unnecessary things, taking up a lot of disk space.
> What I did instead is worked every package I wanted
> to find out its 
> dependencies and install them first. And that could
> be a tedious task as you explore a whole chain of
> dependencies and 
> sub-dependencies. This is how I did it. Sometimes
> the dependencies could be a filename(s) instead of
> an RPM. For this 
> I made a reference list:
> 
> # cd /where/your/rpms/are
> # for i in `ls *.rpm`;do
> > echo "------- $i -------" >> allfiles.txt
> > rpm -qlp $i >> allfiles.txt
> > done
> 
>   After a while you're going to end up with a big
> text file 'allfiles.txt' where you have listing of
> all the RPMs and
> the files in each one of them. vi or less this file
> every time you will need to find a dependable file.
> 
> >Arc,
> >
> >I am running into a snag trying to upgrade using
> your
> >process below.  I have a RH7.2 install on one disk,
> >and a blank disk that is mounted as /mnt/newroot as
> >described below.  I pulled all the SRPMS, RPMS
> >structure from Mikes website and have them in
> >/opt/alpha...  I cd'd into this /opt/alpha
> structure
> >to get to the rpm's and executed "rpm -Uvh
> >--root=/mnt/newroot" and it came back with an RPM
> >error--no packages given.  I changed the command to
> >"rpm -Uvh *.rpm --root=/mnt/newroot" and get a
> >dependency error on a package called "junit".
> >
> >Any advice or assistance on how I can proceed would
> be
> >appreciated.  Do I find this junit SRPM and compile
> >it?  would there be a mismatch against glibc of 7.2
> >vs. FC2, etc.?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Scott
> 
> 
>                                       Arc C.
>                                      
> achapkis at dls.net
> 
> 
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