This really seems a big story behind the two big and different (perhaps) scenarios - .deb and .rpm. The wikipedia link is great. I guess whole of the world's linux is categorized in either of these two categories. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2013-10-02 02:15, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 21:07:49 -0300, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 01/10/13 20:35, Jim Henderson escribió:
My google-fu is failing me at the moment - can you point me to the project/RPM for this?
I have no idea if such thing exists, I was just rambling about what could be done in theory.. and yes I also wondered for a few minutes after writing the email about the practical use-cases.
Ah, I see - I thought you were saying this already existed. Would be cool if it did, that's for sure. :)
If you want to extract a single file from an rpm, that's easy: 'mc' :-)
Just browse to the rpm and hit "enter". You see the contents (there is one directory for the metainfo). One of the virtual files may be a cpio archive: "enter" on it opens that archive which contains the actual files of the rpm.
Is that what you want? :-)
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Carlos E. R. (from 12.3 x86_64 "Dartmouth" at Telcontar)
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