Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:23:56 +1100 (EST) From: Graeme Cross <graeme@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux RPM on FreeBSD, anyone doing this? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812221223130.831-100000@babylon.wsc.monash.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199812210830.AAA50630@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
>
>I'm struggling with the IBM DB2 installer at the moment; they're
>wholesale sold on the RPM thing, which isn't necessarily a bad idea,
>however it means amongst other things that you need a functional rpm on
>your system, as well as a pile of RPMs installed (including some of the
>base system ones).
>
>The rpm binary from RedHat's 5.2 release segfaults on exit,
>unfortunately, which upsets the installer no end...
>
>Any suggestions?
You can bypass an RPM installation - use rpm2cpio to extract the cpio
archive from the RPM file, and then extract the files from there.
Not pretty, but certainly a lot nicer than trying to retrofit RPM into
FreeBSD.
You can get the rpm2cpio script from:
http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/hacks.html
(it's listed about half way down the page)
Cheers
Graeme
--
Graeme Cross
Water Studies Centre, Monash University Phone: +61 3 990 54089
Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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