On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Robert Drozda wrote: > hello, > is there any hint or guide, which can help me with $TOPIC? > It is basically divided into two separate stories, rpm format and driver > itself. > > Is the only way install rpm package, build rpm db and then install > with rpm (rpm pkg management is totaly useless for me)? Are the tools > like rpm2tgz or alien helpful/better? >
I use rpm2cpio (this one is a perl script by 'orabidoo'), which I assume I found from google - see http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9805.2/0616.html (note its old enough to reference /usr/local/bin/perl, so you'll need to edit at least that line) Plus, of course, cpio from gnu (I always need to read the man page to remind myself how to use it, probably something like `cpio -t <filename.cpio' to list the contents. > And. If i find a way hot to get files from rpm, how do i install them? > Well, if it was a regular .src.rpm you'd find build instructions (not exactly 'make', but usually easy enough to work out what needs to be done), patches, and the original source. With a manufacturer's drivers, I don't have a clue - possibly you have a binary part and a wrapper that has to be compiled, plus of course the instructions telling rpm how to go about it. Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag�die, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
