[Yum] Porting YUM to a new OS

[Michael Stenner]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:15:41PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote:
> I'm an embedded systems developer and would like to port the following
> to my OS:
>     1)   RPM   (specifically for the rpmbuild component - yes I'm lazy)
>     2)   YUM   (so I can simplify the updating and repair of my devices)
> 
> The system is a small (8.1MB) GNU/Linux OS based on Slackware (not my
> choice - boss likes Slackware not me)
> 
> Any thoughts???

It's less about "porting" and more about deps.  RPM is C, but will
have deps.  Yum is python.  If you have python, it should run.  If you
don't, then it won't.  If you're looking to keep it light, then you
can ship yum (and python deps) in uncompiled form.

					-Michael

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