Bug#327081: ITP: rpmstrap -- bootstrap a basic RPM-based system

2005-09-14 Thread Sam Hart
Ok, I went back to the source of the problem. Back in Feb 2005 there was some development done in IRC between myself and another contributor. This contributor supplied me with some stubbed out conditional code that I took as is. This is why things like "JUST_PRINT_RPMS" and "ADDITIONAL" could b

Bug#327081: ITP: rpmstrap -- bootstrap a basic RPM-based system

2005-09-12 Thread Sam Hart
scripts (under the authors line) be sufficient? * Inspired by and modeled after Anthony Towns' debootstrap (URL). In all seriousness, I never wanted to /not/ let people know what rpmstrap was intended to be like debootstrap but for RPM-based distributions. --

Bug#327081: ITP: rpmstrap -- bootstrap a basic RPM-based system

2005-09-12 Thread Sam Hart
On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 12:12 -0500, Sam Hart wrote: > For what it's worth, rpmstrap as it is today is actually based on a tool > developed in house at Progeny. This tool could only bootstrap Fedora > Core 2 at a specific revision. Looking at that code now and comparing it > to wha

Bug#327081: ITP: rpmstrap -- bootstrap a basic RPM-based system

2005-09-12 Thread Sam Hart
ill undoubtedly be similarities. Anthony, I value and respect your input, could you show me examples of code that you believe was stolen? There is a very remote possibility that code from contributors may have contained something from debootstrap. I say remote because, as far as I can recall right no