> Well I've finally gotten around to installing Gentoo on my > work laptop, and now I find I am unable to install our > mail client as it is only released as an RPM. I emerged > RPM and tried to install but got a failed dependancy > (/bin/sh of all things!!) Is there any way to fake an RPM > database? Or extract an RPM? I have no interest in trying > to satisfy the dependacies via RPM
No idea if it will work but try: rpm2cpio some.rpm | cpio --extract --make-directories Should extract all the files and directories. I'd do from a temp directory first to make sure it will extract correctly. (On redhat rpm2cpio is part of rpm, so i'm guessing its the same on gentoo) Daniel
