How to un-Caldera my box

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 16 May 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2003 02:57 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 May 2003, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> <snip>
> > > 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.

In that case, let the license  be your guide.  There is a license field
for every installed RPM (see the output from 'rpm -qip f00').  If you whip
up a simple shell script to grep all the license fields, you can see if
there are any that have restrictive licenses (non-GPL etc).

> <snip>
> >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.

Well, unless you reload the box, you'll always have their stuff on your
machine.  At the least, the 'caldera' name is all over the RPM database.

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