Re: Linux v2.5.43

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

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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