From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 0:50:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from srcso.globis.ru (globis.ru [212.248.80.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5053137B422 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 00:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raduga.dyndns.org (raduga.sochi.net [212.248.82.76]) by srcso.globis.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA12711 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:07:53 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from igor@raduga.dyndns.org) Received: (from igor@localhost) by raduga.dyndns.org (8.10.0/8.10.1) id e8C7oO425303 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:50:24 +0400 Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:50:24 +0400 From: Igor Roboul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to extract/install a Linux .rpm file Message-ID: <20000912115024.A25278@linux.rainbow> Reply-To: igorr@crosswinds.net Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: ; from fderudder@lrt.be on Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:16:18AM +0200 X-Operating-System: Linux linux.rainbow 2.2.14-plus-SMP X-Best-Window-Manager: Window Maker (www.windowmaker.org) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 12, 2000 at 09:16:18AM +0200, Fabien DERUDDER wrote: > > Yes but... I think rpm2cpio should be 'brandelfed'for Linux and then > moved to the /compat/linux/usr/bin, and then installing the rpm should I think, if you'll build rpm2cpio from ports you get FreeBSD binary. Actually, .rpm is just cpio archive with some extra stuff. And rpm is available in source. So native rpm2cpio is possible. -- Igor Roboul, Unix System Administrator & Programmer @ sanatorium "Raduga", Sochi, Russia http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=304744 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message