[LUG] Creating a small filesystem from RPMS

[Andrew Rogers <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I need to create a directory structure that will be mounted over NFS as 
a root filesystem on a remote machine.

An RPM based distro (Fedora Core 1 in this case) has the RPMs that I 
need to extract to create this filesystem. The host machine that I will 
use to create this filesystem will run another GNU/Linux distro (not 
necesarrily Fedora), hence I can't copy the hosts filesytem files.

I have tried converting the RPMs to CPIO archives but then the 
post-install RPM scripts don't run. I think the key may be to get the 
RPM databases onto the filesystem first, but how?

I need to learn about RPM internals, anyone recommend a good guide?

I would also be interested in extracting .deb packages into a directory 
structure.

Many thanks
Andrew


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