Re: /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 04 Apr 1999 21:11:33 -0400

In message <199904042018.QAA16738@x15-cruise-basselope>, Kev writes:
+-----
| > ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/quota/quota-1.55-10.i386.rpm
| > ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/quota/quota-1.55-10.src.rpm
| >
| > WHY IS THIS ONLY IN RPM FORMAT?! Please could we have a tarball of the
|
| one possible solution could be:
|
| [klmitch@integrity ~]$ ls -l `which rpm2cpio`
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 51432 Oct 14 18:05 /usr/bin/rpm2cpio
+--->8

Which is part of RPM. Probably not desirable for Debian or Slackware users,
although Alien might be a reasonable alternative.

But, as it turns out, if you delete everything up to the gzip magic number
you'll be left with a .cpio.gz file. I posted a simple Perl filter which
does this.

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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering			 KF8NH
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