At 15:20 +0200 1999-06-14, Sven LUTHER wrote:
yes, sure, but it would be more convenient to have a true patch, any link on how todissect rpm files without rpm installed ? i guess the srpms format is upstream source + a load of patches applied, isn't it ?
<http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/rpm2cpio>, rpm2cpio file.src.rpm | cpio --extract.
srpms are a modified cpio archive containing the upstream tarball, zero or more patches, and the .spec file.
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