Re: RPM is hard to unpack
On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 03:13:06PM +0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> There is a deficiency. It is very hard to unpack an rpm package without
> having rpm installed. Users of other OS'es are forced to use
> hexdump+dd+gzip+cpio or port rpm their systems, install it, initialize
> database etc.
If you have perl installed, a script called rpm2cpio is also available.
In this case, the requirements would be perl, cpio, gzip, and tar, which
does not seem terribly unreasonable or difficult to me.
Reply to: