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Re: SRPM



you can find RH5 sources at ftp.rifkin.technion.ac.il,
/pub/redhat-5.0/SRPMS

Shachar.

On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Alexander Indenbaum wrote:

> On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 5 Feb 1998, Alexander Indenbaum wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > It is probably a FAQ question...
> > > 
> > > Anyway, how do I eat those srpms?
> > > 
> > > What I want to do is to take srpm, unpack it, patch sources and
> > > to compile it.
> > > 
> > > I just do not find oldgood *tar.gz sources.
> > > 
> > > So how do I do it?
> > > 
> > >   Alexander Indenbaum
> > >   baum@actcom.co.il
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > unrpm
> > 
> > or 
> > 
> > rpm [RTFM for options]
> 
> First I read man rpm
> after that I read rpm2cpio
> next I read man cpio
> 
> And when I finally unpacked this thing I found out that it doees not
> include source, only spec file and pathes. Sources are also not found 
> on RH ftp site ( at least not in place which is easy to find :{) ) and
> site to which refer spec file is down!
> 
> I'm probably too tired and doing everything wrong, but if you want to use
> system sources - RH is probably not the best choise ;{)
> 
> > 
> > There is no difference in the way they are packed, just the contents vary.
> > You want to pay attention to the flags, to prevent 'automatic' stuff from
> > happening.
> > 
> > For others than RH, the rpm program is available as binary somewhere. It
> > works the same as the one on the RH disks.
> > 
> > After unRH-ing you get a cpio acrhive or direct files. You know how to use
> > those.
> > 
> > Peter
> > 
> > 
> 
>   Alexander Indenbaum
>   baum@actcom.co.il
> 
> 

Shachar Tal
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