Re: rpm2cpio again . . . ximian artwork

[Ron Smits <rons ronsmits com>]

Strangely enough on my slackware system 8.1.ron just chmodding it was
enough

On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 04:34, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> Matt,
> 
> I used the black arts. ;-]
> 
> Initially I just chmod 755 rpm2cpio but this didn't work.
> 
> What I finally did was download the src.rpm file, then:
> 
> rpm2cpio <file>.src.rpm > ximian-artwork-0.2.26.cpio
> cpio o -i ximian-artwork-0.2.26.tar.gz < ximian-artwork-0.2.26.cpio
> 
> Having extracted the tar.gz file, I copied this to my GARCHIVEDIR and
> then I moved the Makefile to Makefile.old and copied in another Makefile
> (from another package) and then edited it accordingly.
> 
> make clean && make makesum && make install
> 
> and whallah!
> 
> I'm sure jdub can think of something a little neater ;-]
> 
> 
> Rodd
> 
> On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 22:38, Matt Blaha wrote:
> > Hmm, from the ximian artwork directory you did "chmod a+x
> > files/rpm2cpio"? cpio work in the redhat package for you?
> > 
> > 
> > --Matt
> > 
> > On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 23:21, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > > This didn't work for me.  I had to manually extract the cpio, then the
> > > tarball and then rejig the Makefile to get it to install.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Rodd
> > > 
> > > On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 06:20, Matt Blaha wrote:
> > > > Seems like this has come up in the past, Ximian artwork package failed
> > > > to build until I chmod +x'd misc/ximian-artwork/files/rpm2cpio. It built
> > > > fine after that.
> > > > 
> > > > Otherwise the build's smooth so far.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks Jeff,
> > > > --Matt
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