Re: This sucks

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

On Monday, July 16, 2001 10:02:28 +0100, Telsa Gwynne 
<hobbit aloss ukuu org uk> wrote:
+-----
| Now this requires rpm2cpio, admittedly. I don't know whether alien
| would do the same.
+--->8

No it doesn't, actually.  There's a perl script which will extract the cpio 
payload from rpms quite satisfactorily; just google for it ("rpmcpio perl 
script").  The ones I found didn't want to do RPMv4 rpms, but they work 
fine if you disable the file version check.

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