Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 May 1998 00:00:01 +0100 (BST) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: RPMs :o( |
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Hi Soruk, 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..?
True - but somewhere near there should be a binary to suit his hardware - since he hasnae said what his hardware is, I can't point him to it...
Best wishes from Riley.
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