From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13161 invoked by uid 1002); 3 Oct 2003 01:58:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1252 invoked from network); 3 Oct 2003 01:58:57 -0000 Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 10:58:53 +0900 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20031003015853.GA7332%chutz@gg3.net> References: <004f01c38950$5177f1b0$8000a8c0@1d36l> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004f01c38950$5177f1b0$8000a8c0@1d36l> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i-ja.1 From: Georgi Georgiev Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.80 (Determine) X-Primary-Address: chutz@gg3.net Reply-To: Georgi Georgiev Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] SuSE Kernel Sources X-Archives-Salt: 04af5d7a-99c5-4581-9f19-effc829f0c8c X-Archives-Hash: abf610c917a9cf31112e3e9cbb16bfd9 On 02/10/2003 at 20:47:32(-0500), Paul Varner used 5.2K just to say: > > 1. The kernel sources are distributed by SuSE as an RPM. The RPM > > data is compressed with bzip instead of gzip. I discovered that > > rpm2targz doesn't understand bzipped RPM files and would not > > correctly process the rpm. Because of this, an explicit dependency > > for the kernel is the rpm ebuild. The only thing that is used from > > rpm is the rpm2cpio command to unpack the sources into the ebuild > > sandbox. I don't use rpm in any other way. The second dependency is > > cpio. This one really isn't an issue since it is part of the system, > > but to be safe, I included it anyway. How did you discover that? Please check the latest version of rpm2targz, bug #23249 and the rpm.eclass (in reverse order). You can also take a look at the ebuilds for dev-lang/icc and dev-lang/ifc (the first two that come to mind) for hints on how to use the rpm.eclass. -- (* Georgi Georgiev (* Get in touch with your feelings of hostility (* *) chutz@gg3.net *) against the dying light. -- Dylan Thomas *) (* +81(90)6266-1163 (* [paraphrased periphrastically] (* -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list