On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:52:56PM -0400, Paul Jarc wrote: > Paul Nasrat <pnasrat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 10:38 -0400, Paul Jarc wrote: > >> So I need to have rpm2cpio installed before I can extract popt, but I > >> also need to have popt installed before I can build rpm2cpio. > > > > http://rpm.org/tools/scripts/rpm2cpio.sh > > Ok, that takes care of the catch-22 for bootstrapping, but it's still > lacking in convenience. I don't use rpm - I just need popt for other > things, like rsync. But I have to download the whole SRPM for rpm > (which is about ten times the size of popt alone), extract a cpio from > the SRPM, extract a tarball from the cpio, unpack the tarball, and > pick out the popt sources from there. > > Separate tarballs were (and still are) available for popt versions up > to 1.7. I'd very much like to have them available for current > versions as well. Should I be sending this request somewhere else? > Directly to Erik Troan? Or is there a list specifically for popt? > cvs -d :pserver:anonymos@xxxxxxxxxxx:/cvs/devel login cvs -d :pserver:anonymos@xxxxxxxxxxx:/cvs/devel get -d popt-1.9.1 rpm/popt tar czvf popt-1.9.1.tar.gz ./popt-1.9.1 Add -r rpm-4_3 or -r rpm-4_2 for older releases. There's nothing in popt-1.9.1 that will hurt, nothing much has changed for years. Tar balls for popt (and rpm) are created only upon release. No release for rpm for 18 months == no tarballs for either rpm or popt. 73 de Jeff -- Jeff Johnson ARS N3NPQ jbj@xxxxxxxxxx (jbj@xxxxxxx) Chapel Hill, NC _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
