How to un-Caldera my box

[Tony Alfrey]

On Thursday 15 May 2003 02:57 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Thu, 15 May 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote:
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> > a)  what makes my distro a Caldera distro (other than boot
> > scripts)?
>
> This is rather hard to quantify, as its not specifically certain
> packages, but how some are built or setup.  There is the obvious
> /etc/issue which you could/should change to expunge the Caldera name,
> but beylond that you're getting yourself into some rather difficult
> territory, because just about everything that you're running that
> originated from a Caldera RPM is what makes your installation a
> Caldera distro.  They don't neccesarily take the contents of a
> tarball and make it into an RPM, inchanged.

I'm more concerned about some scripts that are specific Caldera 
copyrighted.  I've seen a few from time to time when poking around.
I keep thinking of kde (and applications) as being a significant portion 
of the system, but there are ten zillion tiny files in /etc alone.  The 
thing that is annoying is that the stupid product 'works' (at least for 
my uses) and I hate to spend a vast amount of unproductive time 
building what will be essentially Linux From Scratch just to purge SCO 
from the box.

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>Personally, i'm not touching anything on any of my boxes until
> there is some legal basis for doing so.  Right now, its still SCO vs.
> IBM.

I'm not ever going to worry about SCO suing me, I just don't want to 
think I've got their stuff on my machine.

-- 
Tony Alfrey
tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
"I'd Rather Be Sailing"