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Re: SRPM
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
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