Date: Thu, 12 Sep 1996 08:24:56 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@Nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-ports@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: port of su2 Message-ID: <199609121324.IAA08689@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 12 Sep 1996 03:05:54 PDT." <Pine.NEB.3.95.960912030227.16787C-100000@nike.efn.org>
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John-Mark Gurney writes: > >I'm not sure this is the place to mention it... but I was looking/workingo >n porting another program and they use RPM to do it... (you can't even >get it to compile easily... and it looks like hell to get it to >compile)... they are trying to make it as a all platform packaging >device... > I started out trying to port the rpm archive crap as archivers/rpm. well it started out all find and well, but by the time I got half through with it I was making some truly attrocious hacks to get the thing to compile. After a while, I had a `rpm2cpio' binary, that'd extract stuff through the two-stages process. I think that red-hat really went out of their way to make the rpm stuff only work with the linux hodge-podge of includes. Anyway I was so emabrassed with the hacks, that I never finished it, however I could contribute a rpm2cpio binary. > >gurney_j@efn.org >http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ >Modem/FAX: (541) 683-6954 (FreeBSD Box) > >Live in Peace, destroy Micro$oft, support free software, run FreeBSD (unix) > eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com
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