Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:55:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: Fabien DERUDDER <fderudder@lrt.be> Cc: igorr@crosswinds.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How to extract/install a Linux .rpm file Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000912165448.11937A-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <A5B07B66A23ADD419A5542C0A7709665011065@dove.LRT.LOCAL>
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But before we can brandelf rpm2cpio, someone needs to rewrite it in C instead of Perl. (I just love watching my system slow to a crawl as Perl sucks in a 70MB RPM and slowly spits it out as a cpio archive.) -- Matthew Emmerton || matt@gsicomp.on.ca GSI Computer Services || P: +1 (800) 217-5409 Technical Director || F: +1 (519) 335-6584 On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Fabien DERUDDER wrote: > > > Yes but... I think rpm2cpio should be 'brandelfed'for Linux and then > moved to the /compat/linux/usr/bin, and then installing the rpm should > be done this way : /compat/linux/usr/bin/rpm2cpio yourrpm.rpm | (cd > /compat/linux; cpio --extract --make-directories --verbose > --unconditional). > If there are some Linux libraries included, /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig > > Fabien Derudder > http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=1327867 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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