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From: Georgi Georgiev <chutz@×××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SuSE Kernel Sources
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:30:23
Message-Id: 20031003063019.GA11505%chutz@gg3.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] SuSE Kernel Sources by "C. Brewer"
1 On 02/10/2003 at 21:17:11(-0700), C. Brewer used 1.3K just to say:
2 > I thought I'd drop some input on this..I personally have a copy of rpm2targz
3 > copied into my home dir in which all I did was change-
4 >
5 > dd ibs=`rpmoffset < $i` skip=1 if=$i 2> /dev/null | gzip -dc > $ofn
6 > to-
7 > dd ibs=`rpmoffset < $i` skip=1 if=$i 2> /dev/null | bzip2 -dc > $ofn
8
9 Or you can make a script that does something similar to what rpm.eclass does.
10 Or you can look at the bug I mentioned in my previous post -- there are a few
11 more ideas over there (one of them is used in rpm.eclass). You can then use
12 only one script without worrying that there'd be a failure.
13
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Re: [gentoo-dev] SuSE Kernel Sources "C. Brewer" <cbrewer@×××××××××××××.net>