682800 – app-arch/rpm2targz should be replaced by rpm2tgz

Bug 682800 - app-arch/rpm2targz should be replaced by rpm2tgz

Summary: app-arch/rpm2targz should be replaced by rpm2tgz

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

URL:	https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/rpm2ta...
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Reported:	2019-04-07 08:12 UTC by Pacho Ramos
Modified:	2021-03-16 23:34 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2019-04-07 08:12:00 UTC

I was trying to find a newer release from rpm2targz in Slackware (its upstream), but it seems it was replaced by:
https://packages.slackware.com/?r=slackware-current&p=rpm2tgz-1.2.2-i586-2.txz

Maybe we should migrate to it, the only issue is that rpm.eclass will need to be bumped as rpm2tgz doesn't have rpm2tar command, only rpm2targz (even if, reading the script, maybe it could be patched to allow a rpm2tar to be created and gzip compression being skipped)

Thanks

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2021-03-16 23:34:53 UTC

rpm2targz has far more features than Slackware's rpm2tgz.  i don't think they're comparable at all anymore.  Slackare's rpm2tgz is good only if you're actually running Slackware.

i'll add more details to the rpm2targz README.
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/rpm2targz.git/commit/?id=e8c12b5d196e5b6cc9181fc6c34ca438d0cfa3c9