From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 12 13:55:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.42.130.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15DE437B423 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:55:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.10.1/8.9.2) with SMTP id e8CKtZ511942; Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:55:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@xena.gsicomp.on.ca) Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 16:55:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Matthew Emmerton To: Fabien DERUDDER Cc: igorr@crosswinds.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: How to extract/install a Linux .rpm file In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG But before we can brandelf rpm2cpio, someone needs to rewrite it in C instead of Perl. (I just love watching my system slow to a crawl as Perl sucks in a 70MB RPM and slowly spits it out as a cpio archive.) -- Matthew Emmerton || matt@gsicomp.on.ca GSI Computer Services || P: +1 (800) 217-5409 Technical Director || F: +1 (519) 335-6584 On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, 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 > be done this way : /compat/linux/usr/bin/rpm2cpio yourrpm.rpm | (cd > /compat/linux; cpio --extract --make-directories --verbose > --unconditional). > If there are some Linux libraries included, /compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig > > Fabien Derudder > http://www.brainbench.com/transcript.jsp?pid=1327867 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message