Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 May 1998 12:35:00 +0800 (WST) | From | John Summerfield <> | Subject | Re: RPMs :o( |
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On Wed, 20 May 1998, Soruk of Vulcan wrote:
> On Wed, 20 May 1998, Riley Williams wrote: > > > Hi Alex. > > > > > I've just been given a .RPM - no tar.gz packages available :o( Is > > > there a rpm to tar.gz converter out there? > > > > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/SRPMS/rpm* > > > > That should get you the latest version of the RPM source, and it can > > happily handle RPM's - and if they're *.src.rpm then the tar.gz is > > inside it... > > That may not help much... if the source in an RPM, how does he extract it > from the RPM so he can build RPM to extrct it..? >
Eyeball the files mentioned in the attachment: their names suggest there's an rpm to tar converter around.
Cheers John Summerfield http://os2.ami.com.au/os2/ for OS/2 support. Configuration, networking, combined IBM ftpsites index. rpmtar-2.4.2-2.i386.lsm ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/package/rpmtar-2.4.2-2.i386.lsm 842 0 Dec 7 23:24 rpmtar-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm.tar.gz ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/package/rpmtar-2.4.2-2.i386.rpm.tar.gz 260573 0 Dec 7 23:26 rpmtar-2.4.2-2.src.lsm ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/package/rpmtar-2.4.2-2.src.lsm 513 0 Dec 7 23:24 rpmtar-2.4.2-2.src.rpm.tar.gz ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/utils/package/rpmtar-2.4.2-2.src.rpm.tar.gz 328874 0 Dec 7 23:29
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