Fedora from Mike Barnes

[Gregory Leblanc]

On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 17:48, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:25:29PM -0500, Arkadiy Chapkis - Arc wrote:
> > 
> > 3. Install packages with rpm -Uh --root=/mnt/root  This step was most
> > time consuming as I didn't want to install everything and at the same
> > time wanted to follow dependencies.
> 
> Once you installed enough to get yum running after chroot then you could
> have use that to install the rest.  yum does resolve dependencies and it
> will run with a URL of 'file://' kind in its configuration where a
> content of that URL is an absolute path to a directory where your
> 'headers' are (and you can recreate that information at any moment with
> a help of yum-arch).

I managed to get a lot of help from yum when doing something similar for
the SPARC port of Fedora.  To get a running system, I used a
super-minimal install of Aurora (RH 7.3, essentially), upgraded to our
latest build of Fedora, then installed additional packages as needed. 
Though if you were trying to test out upgrade paths or dependencies,
that might not be the way to go.
	Greg