Intent to package: rpm-4.1
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Tue Apr 29 03:28:00 GMT 2003
Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>>FWIW, this gets my vote too -- as proposed. We'll probably need another
>>go-round of this once Dario gets the packages up for inspection.
>
>
> +1 Here, I absolutely hate having to drop into linux just to extract
> SRPMS...Brrrrrr.
You can do that without rpm.exe -- all you need is (perl) and cpio:
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/perl-contrib/index.html#rpm2cpio
(hat tip: Suhaib Siddiqi)
--Chuck
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