AMD64/rel 5.3 - setting up Linux compatibility

Sangwoo Shim ssw at neo.redjade.org
Fri Mar 4 07:57:35 GMT 2005


On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 11:10:30PM -0500, Michael W. Oliver wrote:
> On 2005-03-03T19:19:15-0800, dR wrote:
[snip] 
> that is a one-liner to extract all of the RPMs, and since you only have
> scalc, it looks like you only extracted the first of the many RPMs.
> That is what happened to me initially when using...
> 
> rpm2cpio *rpm ......
> 
> the wildcard wasn't expanded, and only the first RPM was extracted.
> 
> if you are still having trouble, extract them all manually.

I did write the procedure from my memory. Apparently wildcard expansion doesn't
work well with rpm2cpio. :-( I also extracted them with small shell script,
like:

for i in *.rpm; do rpm2cpio $i | tar xvf -; done

Sorry for the wrong instruction.

Regards,
Sangwoo Shim


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