Re: RPMs :o(

Soruk of Vulcan (soruk@Eridani.Demon.CO.UK)
Wed, 20 May 1998 00:31:47 +0100 (BST)


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..?

-- Soruk
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