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On 03/10/2003 at 00:20:45(-0700), C. Brewer used 1.0K just to say: |
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> True, there were solid suggestions in the bug, but IIRC most of them |
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> revolved around rpm/rpm2cpio, negating the need for rpm2tgz in the first |
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> place. |
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The reason I opened that bug in the first place, is because I didn't want to |
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compile rpm to install icc on a friend's computer. So even though rpm/rpm2cpio |
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negates the need for rpm2tgz, there is a solid reason why we do need a quick, |
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easy, small solution for uncompressing rpms. |
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1. feature(gzip + bzip2 + rpmoffset) == feature(rpm2cpio) |
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2. size(gzip + bzip2 + rpmoffset) <<<<<< size(rpm2cpio) == size(rpm) |
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> Maybe I ( or someone with the time) will work out the hitch in |
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> rpm2tgz. |
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What hitch? We've alrady worked around that hitch. However if you read the bug |
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correctly -- there was a suggestion for fixing the rpm2tgz package itself, but |
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Mr.Tse decided to simply fix the rpm.eclass. Which IMHO is a solution good |
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enough as we mostly need to uncompress RPMs in ebuilds. |
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> IMHO its bad enough needing to install rpms in the first place, |
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> without adding the rpm program as well. Just a thought:) |
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It is *not* a bad idea, and here is why: |
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First of all, Gentoo does not "install" rpms. Gentoo doesn't care about |
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dependency information in the rpm, nor does it need to update some freaky |
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database that rpm uses. It only needs the files. So in Gentoo terms -- the RPM |
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package is just a freaky tarball. Why would I need the rpm package to |
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uncompress that freaky tarball if I can go without it? |
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