* Re: [gentoo-dev] new rpm.eclass
@ 2003-06-22 0:12 99% ` Georgi Georgiev
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From: Georgi Georgiev @ 2003-06-22 0:12 UTC (permalink / raw
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On 21/06/2003 at 15:30:19(+0100), Alastair Tse used 1.4K just to say:
> Hi All,
>
> There are a number of packages that require us extracting directly from
> RPMs or Source RPMs. As a result, a number of ebuilds depend on
> rpm2targz (a slackware creation) for extraction and have their own
> src_unpack routine.
>
> To automate the process a little better, I've written an rpm.eclass
> which is a slot in replacement for src_unpack(). It automatically
> extracts rpm packages and for source rpms, it also extracts inner
> tarballs. Internally, it still uses rpm2targz but is a little smarter
> about cleaning up after itself and handles multiple sources properly.
>
> This is now in portage. For an example of how it can used, look at
> app-misc/jot or x11-themes/redhat-artwork.
The rpm.eclass uses the rpm2targz script itself which is a waste of time and
resources. Please take a look at bugs 23249 and maybe 23179 for another
approach which was already adopted by a few packages (ccc, cxx, libcpms,
libcxml, ladebug and compaq-sources) even before the bug was submitted.
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