At 05:51 -0700 1998-07-13, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: >Well... >I would install alien and rpm ....then use alien to convert >the rpms to tarballs...hmm I think this works for srpms too (I know >I have unpacked at least one when I was investigating a package >I thought would be good for debian)
It's better to use rpm2cpio on srpms, i.e. rpm2cpio filename.src.rpm | cpio --extract, because a src.rpm is just a container for an upstream source tarball, one or more patches, and a spec file for building binary rpm(s). -- Joel "Espy" Klecker Debian GNU/Linux Developer <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.espy.org/> <ftp://ftp.espy.org/pub/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
