On 9/25/06, "Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's trying working around rpm for a minute by just extracting the > rpm contents and having a look at what it's trying to do. Grab this > script: > > http://www.rpm.org/tools/scripts/rpm2cpio.sh > > Install it in /usr/bin: > > install -v -m755 rpm2cpio.sh /usr/bin/rpm2cpio > > Install cpio from BLFS if you haven't already. > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/cpio.html > > Make a scratch directory to unpack the rpm archive (which is just a > cpio archive). > > mkdir foo > cd foo > rpm2cpio package.rpm | cpio -idv > > Now you can see all the binaries. If there's a .spec file, read > through it. Maybe it'll have some information about threaded binaries. > If this is a publically available rpm, could you place a link to it? > > -- > Dan
Excellent thank you, this has helped out a great deal. I'm able to access the needed files and install manually now. > If this is a publically available rpm, could you place a link to it? virtual server is freely available at www.microsoft.com/virtualserver VS ships with the virtual machine additions for DOS & Windows but the linux additions are only available through a beta program which requires registration at www.connect.microsoft.com Currently the linux additions are only supported with a few redhat and suse distros but the performance boost and host integration is well worth getting going on LFS. The additions give a good performance boost, better hardware emulation and client/host mouse integration in X. After I get this integration going I expect to be able to run up to 10 LFS 128 megs of ram virtual machines on a single 2 gig of ram host without much of a performance delay in the clients. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
