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Bug 810634 - rpm.eclass uses rpm2tar for unpack - fails on some rpm packages
Summary: rpm.eclass uses rpm2tar for unpack - fails on some rpm packages
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo's Team for Core System packages
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Reported: 2021-08-27 09:00 UTC by Anton Gubarkov
Modified: 2021-08-28 08:18 UTC (History)
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Description Anton Gubarkov 2021-08-27 09:00:43 UTC 
The rpm_unpack function in rpm.eclass uses rpm2tar to unpack the contents of a RPM file to workdir. 
rpm2tar fails on some rpms (see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576842)

the rpm2cpio | cpio -idm works reliably on these packages. 

Shouldn't we switch to rpm2cpio?
Comment 1 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev 2021-08-27 14:50:31 UTC 
(In reply to Anton Gubarkov from comment #0)
> Shouldn't we switch to rpm2cpio?

That would require people to install app-arch/rpm, which is a "heavier" package than rpm2targz.

I do agree that it would probably be a better solution though.