On 02/10/2003 at 21:17:11(-0700), C. Brewer used 1.3K just to say:
> I thought I'd drop some input on this..I personally have a copy of rpm2targz
> copied into my home dir in which all I did was change-
> 
> dd ibs=`rpmoffset < $i` skip=1 if=$i 2> /dev/null | gzip -dc > $ofn
> to-
> dd ibs=`rpmoffset < $i` skip=1 if=$i 2> /dev/null | bzip2 -dc > $ofn

Or you can make a script that does something similar to what rpm.eclass does.
Or you can look at the bug I mentioned in my previous post -- there are a few
more ideas over there (one of them is used in rpm.eclass). You can then use
only one script without worrying that there'd be a failure.

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