Bug 9247

Summary:	[NEW EBUILD] rpm2cpio
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Georgi Georgiev <chutz+bugs.gentoo.org>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Bruce A. Locke (RETIRED) <blocke>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	alan.justino
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4_rc1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/utilities-general/rpm2cpio
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	rpm2cpio perl script

Description Georgi Georgiev 2002-10-17 07:46:47 UTC

It is a pain in...., it is just a pain, having to merge rpm in order to install
realplayer, it is.

I stumbled on an rpm2cpio perl script (a very simple one) that I will attach
next. I guess it would be kinder to the user to have a dependency on perl+gzip
than on rpm... or at least give the user a choice, since we don't really need
rpm for realplayer, do we? And the script could be distributed with the ebuild
since it is only... hm... 2665 bytes, 1781 bytes of which are comments + help.

Comment 1 Georgi Georgiev 2002-10-17 07:49:25 UTC

Created attachment 4779 [details]
rpm2cpio perl script

Comment 2 Bruce A. Locke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-11-05 23:11:59 UTC

Hi.

There is a small package called "rpm2targz" written by the slackware folks that
consists of a shell script and small executable with no dependencies on the rpm
package itself.

I will bring up the topic of depending on the full rpm package with other
developers and I'd encourage you to open bugs on any packages depending rpm as
opposed to something like rpm2targz.

Also keep in mind the script you have provided is for RPM v3 only it appears.

Thanks for the suggestion and I will pass it along. :)

Comment 3 Matteo Spreafico 2006-06-04 06:01:51 UTC

Can we had this one to portage?

http://www.iagora.com/~espel/rpm2cpio

I know there's rpm2targz, but amavisd-new want rpm2cpio for rpm.

Comment 4 Mario Vazquez 2006-06-14 10:40:48 UTC

just install rpm package, it also include that file

Comment 5 Alan Justino 2006-07-23 15:17:53 UTC

Klik (http://klik.atekon.de/) need rpm2cpio too. Please put it on Portage.