Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4348 mails)

[Anders Johansson <anders.johansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 23 October 2002 18.09, Rob Benton wrote:
> Well I guess I'm not understanding something here b/c when you do a 'rpm
>  -qpl' command on that MPlayer.src.rpm it lists the w32codec file but when
> I execute the install it doesn't put it in /usr/src/packages/SOURCES.

When you do "rpm -qpl" it doesn't actually look inside the package and see 
what's actually there. It just reads a "content description", which may or 
may not be correct. In this case it obviously isn't. If you do "rpm -qpl 
--dump" you'll note that already the main source file is five times the size 
of the rpm, so it doesn't add up :)

If you look at the spec file you'll see that w32codec is tagged as "SuSE 
internal. Must not leave SuSE", or words to that effect.

You'll also note that the main source file also isn't included in the 
"nosrc.rpm". I'm not sure if that was actually intended, but the effect of it 
is that if you want to recompile the package you'll have to grab the sources, 
as well as the windows library files, from the net.

Anders