On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:18:42AM -0400, jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:05:29AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
>
> > > The binary rpms are built on SuSE 8.1, there's a source rpm there too
> > > though. This is 1.11a37 with Linus patch that allows you do to
> >
> > Can us non-rpm'ers get a tarball, please? Even an upstream tarball with
> > patches in the topdir would be fine.
>
> Hi Ben,
> I attached a perl script to this email that will let you turn an rpm
> into a cpio file. To use it do:
>
> rpm2cpio some.file.rpm | cpio --extract
>
> Hope this helps.
Thanks. I myself know how to do this :) Just that not everyone uses rpm,
and not everyone knows how to extract things from it.
I don't suspect that the rpm users know that "ar x foo.deb data.tar.gz"
will extract binaries from a .deb either :)
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