requires(post) on coreutils

Patrice Dumas pertusus at free.fr
Thu Nov 20 20:56:43 UTC 2008


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:50:22PM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-11-20 at 21:32 +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > Using 
> > yum --installroot=/some/where install package
> > you can have something much more minimal than @core. It may not be
> > fedora per se, and indeed cannot boot, but it is an install of fedora 
> > packages and can be useful as chroot building.
> 
> *shrug* try it on a few packages and see what kind of fallout you get.

I did and it was quite right. Some packages don't bring in a shell at
all, mostly doc packages, but otherwise packages requiring glibc
requires bash, and, if I recall well also coreutils. But no need for
rpm, for example which is nice in a chroot.

--
Pat




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