Bug 682800

Summary:	app-arch/rpm2targz should be replaced by rpm2tgz
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pacho Ramos <pacho>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/rpm2targz.git/commit/?id=e8c12b5d196e5b6cc9181fc6c34ca438d0cfa3c9
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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