Non-interactive smart

[Andreas Bach Aaen]

Hi,

I am evaluating the different package managers for that are able to install 
rpm packages into a non root (/) filesystem. One of the uses are installations 
for User Mode Linux.

However I have found that yum have an option -y that makes it non-interactive, 
and hence usable for scripting. I haven't been ablt to find a similar option 
for smart - is this true?

Also I use smart from a machine that isn't network connected. The archives are 
local accessable. This means that I can't access a keyserver. How do I 
install the needed keys on advance, so this step is skipped, and I still 
check the signatures of the individual rpms?

When I bootstap my system by this:
smart -o rpm-root=/tmp/newroot/ --option rpm-check-signatures=0 install rpm 
kernel-smp 

During this installation I see warnings like this:
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Output from udev-085-30.10 at i586:
                                                                    warning: 
group tty does not exist - using root
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For me to seen does this mean that you are using the rpm command and the 
password/group file from the surrounding filesystem (/) and not the new one 
(/tmp/newroot).

If you first bootstrap your new rootfilesystem with e.g. the rpm command, and 
after that install the rest with the bootstrapped rpm command in a chrooted 
environment (to /tmp/newroot) then it's possible to create e.g. a Suse 
rootfilesystem on a Fedora system or the other way arround. Maybe even 
installing a deb based rootfilesystem on an rpm based host. Any experience 
out in this direction, now that smart doesn't seems to be connected to any 
specific destribution?

Regards,
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