How to un-Caldera my box

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey
Mon May 17 11:47:28 PDT 2004


On Friday 16 May 2003 02:19 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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:
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> > 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).

Interesting; I like that.  I think I'll try it if for no other reason 
than to see how it works.
For 'license', do you mean 'copyright' ?
I see this field in the list of info I get when I command
 rpm -qi blahblah 
but not 'license'.

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



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