On Saturday 22 February 2003 18:31, J. Grant wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Thanks for the sugestions.
>
> JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
> > Try this:
> >
> > rpm2cpio <rpm file> > newfile.cpio
> > cpio -ivd < newfile.cpio
> >
> > That should get you going...
>
> Cool, thanks that worked.  compiled rpm does not seem to require a .spec
> file, the src had it though, so i know the ./configure line now :)
>
> Rolf:  I checked in mc, it shows the .spec file but i can not extract it
> from there.  Unless i've missed something?


If you can see it there why not copy it easily with mc (F5) to a dir there you 
want it to have. Otherwise if you want doing that more then once it is easier 
to(as user) :

mkdir ~/rpm/
cd into rpm/
mkdir the following:

BUILD/
RPMS/
SOURCES/
SPECS/
SRPMS/
tmp/

Package rpm-build and dependencies should be installed. Then do 'rpm -i 
somesrcrpm.src.rpm' as that user.

In SOURCES/ are then the tar.bz2 and the patches. In SPECS/ the 
somesrcrpm.spec and so on. There you can edit the specfile and compile it at 
the end with rpm -ba somesrcrpm.spec ...
... and voila you have made the first step on building rpms ;)

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