From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 04:14:47 -0800 Received: from deliverator.sgi.com ([204.94.214.10]:16653 "EHLO deliverator.sgi.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 04:14:29 -0800 Received: from dhcp-163-154-5-240.engr.sgi.com (dhcp-163-154-5-240.engr.sgi.com [163.154.5.240]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id EAA05801 for ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 04:13:30 -0800 (PST) mail_from (ralf@oss.sgi.com) Received: (ralf@lappi.waldorf-gmbh.de) by bacchus.dhis.org id ; Sun, 28 Jan 2001 04:10:27 -0800 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 04:10:26 -0800 From: Ralf Baechle To: Mike McDonald Cc: Karel van Houten , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Cross compiling RPMs Message-ID: <20010128041025.C4287@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <200101271052.LAA21268@sparta.research.kpn.com> <200101272257.OAA05689@saturn.mikemac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101272257.OAA05689@saturn.mikemac.com>; from mikemac@mikemac.com on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:57:24PM -0800 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 02:57:24PM -0800, Mike McDonald wrote: > I was thinking of what the MINIMUM set of RPMs you needed installed > so you could bootstrap a system up from sources, not what's the > minimum needed to recompile any arbitrary RPM. Really depends on what you want to do. Many packages detect other packages or features of other packages. This builds a big evil network of dependencies which make bootstrapping somewhat hard. It's a good idea to start with an as complete installation as possible. > With less than 150 files installed in a root file system, I can > install the bin-utils, gcc, make, and glibc RPMs. From there, I should > be able to begin cross compiling the other basic RPMs for a system. > That's my ultimate goal. Ralf