Greg Lindahl wrote: >>> But this requires cleverness -- often install scripts and the like >>> look at /etc/redhat-release or the redhat-release rpm. >> The important thing is that they are *scripts*, which means you can read >> them, figure out what they are doing, and either modify them to suit >> your RHEL rebuild, > > Sometimes. Sometimes they're binaries. BTW with binaries you can > strace them and generally figure out how to fool them into installing.
You called them scripts (see above). I was just working off of what you said. From my experience, binary installers in the Unix world are *relatively* rare. Most are simple shell scripts. But now we're off topic again... -- Prentice _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
