Bug 88310

Summary:	an eclass to handle unpacking source rpms
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Josh Nichols (RETIRED) <nichoj>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	src-rpm.eclass

Description Josh Nichols (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-07 21:29:47 UTC

There seems to be a number of packages distributed with RedHat and Fedora which don't seem to have a proper homepage, so the only means of getting them are through source rpms.

So, I suggest an eclass, or perhaps an addition to an existing eclass like eutils, for extracting a source rpm, then extracting the source tarball that was contained in the source rpm.

Comment 1 Josh Nichols (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-07 21:33:13 UTC

Created attachment 55620 [details]
src-rpm.eclass

Has a function, unpack_srcrpm, which takes a source rpm, and will extract it
using rpm2targz, then take any resulting tarballs, and extract those. It can
take an argument, which is the path to a source rpm, or otherwise, it will
default to ${A}.

Comment 2 Sven Wegener gentoo-dev

2005-04-07 22:35:57 UTC

rpm.eclass already handles unpacking of source rpms