On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 12:58, William M. Quarles wrote: > There is no corresponding SRPM, nor a binary RPM, for Fedora Core or Red > Hat Linux. > > 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 > >> > >> > > > > rpm2cpio foo.i386.rpm | cpio -idv -- Tony Placilla, RHCT anthony_placilla@xxxxxxxx perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10);'
