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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 01:58:57
Message-Id: 20031003015853.GA7332%chutz@gg3.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] SuSE Kernel Sources by Paul Varner
1 On 02/10/2003 at 20:47:32(-0500), Paul Varner used 5.2K just to say:
2 > > 1. The kernel sources are distributed by SuSE as an RPM. The RPM
3 > > data is compressed with bzip instead of gzip. I discovered that
4 > > rpm2targz doesn't understand bzipped RPM files and would not
5 > > correctly process the rpm. Because of this, an explicit dependency
6 > > for the kernel is the rpm ebuild. The only thing that is used from
7 > > rpm is the rpm2cpio command to unpack the sources into the ebuild
8 > > sandbox. I don't use rpm in any other way. The second dependency is
9 > > cpio. This one really isn't an issue since it is part of the system,
10 > > but to be safe, I included it anyway.
11
12 How did you discover that?
13
14 Please check the latest version of rpm2targz, bug #23249 and the rpm.eclass (in
15 reverse order). You can also take a look at the ebuilds for dev-lang/icc and
16 dev-lang/ifc (the first two that come to mind) for hints on how to use the
17 rpm.eclass.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] SuSE Kernel Sources Paul Varner <gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org>