On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:47:00PM -0500, Sam TH wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 02:14:20PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > > this choice of using the rpm binary format should be reconsidered > > IMNSHO. i don't really care whether you use the debian ar+tar+gzip, > > or just plain .tar.gz, just use something i can extract *anywhere* > > with the most basic and standard tools, without having to go and > > compile rpm or some rpm archive extracter. > > > > RPM is just a cpio archive. Or at least that was my impression. So > GNU cpio should work just fine. people love to say that, but it simply isn't true. i have never been able to use cpio to extract an rpm except by putting the rpm through rpm2cpio first. ar tar and gzip are extractable EVERYWHERE, even non-GNU systems. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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