From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 28 21:05:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA01647 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:05:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA01622 for ; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 21:05:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@cain.gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA06987; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:34:35 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199806290404.NAA06987@cain.gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Extracting RPM archives In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Jun 1998 17:08:07 +0800." <199806270908.RAA15353@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:34:35 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Yeah I know it's from that other Unix, but does anyone have a tool to do this > (I'm trying to extract the sources to the 3dfx device drivers and all the > latest Linux Glide libs). Install rpm /usr/ports/misc/rpm and then you can use rpm2cpio to get the archive out of it.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message