Anyway, the real point of my question is this: does anybody know how to extract files from a binary RPM without using Alien?
Thanks, William
Aly Dharshi wrote:
Hello,
My question to you would be why would you want to try building a Mandrake rpm on FC1/2 ? Is there no corresponding SRPM from Fedora Core/ RedHat? I think that what you may want to do is to really take a reference to a doc which explains building rpms and/or srpms.
Cheers,
Aly.
William M. Quarles wrote:
Hi,
If anyone has tried rebuilding a Mandrake SRPM on Fedora Core or Red Hat Linux, your probably got this:
+ %make /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55192: line 53: fg: no job control error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55192 (%build)RPM build
errors: user florin does not exist - using root <SNIP> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.55192 (%build)
Apparently the "fix" is that %build is not a macro defined for Red Hat RPM distributions, so we need to steal it from Mandrake rpms and use it. Now this would be perfectly simple if I could just extract the files from an RPM file of the RPM program for Mandrake, without having to install them (you will get a Segmentation Fault if you try). The only problem is that the only way that I could figure out how to get the files out was by using Alien to convert the RPM RPM to a tarball, and extract the tarball. Does anybody know of another way of doing this? I'm sure that rpm2cpio could be used, but that seemed pretty complicated for me to figure out on my own.
Peace, William
