Re: Linux v2.5.43

[jlnance@unity.ncsu.edu]

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On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 08:05:29AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:

> > The binary rpms are built on SuSE 8.1, there's a source rpm there too
> > though. This is 1.11a37 with Linus patch that allows you do to
> 
> Can us non-rpm'ers get a tarball, please? Even an upstream tarball with
> patches in the topdir would be fine.

Hi Ben,
    I attached a perl script to this email that will let you turn an rpm
into a cpio file.  To use it do:

	rpm2cpio some.file.rpm | cpio --extract

Hope this helps.

Jim

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#! /usr/bin/env perl

# why does the world need another rpm2cpio?  because the existing one
# won't build unless you have half a ton of things that aren't really
# required for it, since it uses the same library used to extract RPM's.
# in particular, it won't build on the HPsUX box i'm on.

# add a path if desired
$gzip = "gzip";

sub printhelp {
  print "rpm2cpio, perl version by orabidoo <odar\@pobox.com>\n";
  print "use: rpm2cpio [file.rpm]\n";
  print "dumps the contents to stdout as a GNU cpio archive\n";
  exit 0;
}

if ($#ARGV == -1) {
  printhelp if -t STDIN;
  $f = "STDIN";
} elsif ($#ARGV == 0) {
  open(F, "< $ARGV[0]") or die "Can't read file $ARGV[0]\n";
  $f = 'F';
} else {
  printhelp;
}

printhelp if -t STDOUT;

# gobble the file up
undef $/;
$|=1;
$rpm = <$f>;
close ($f);

($magic, $major, $minor, $crap) = unpack("NCC C90", $rpm);

die "Not an RPM\n" if $magic != 0xedabeedb;
die "Not a version 3 RPM\n" if $major != 3;

$rpm = substr($rpm, 96);

while ($rpm ne '') {
  $rpm =~ s/^\c@*//s;
  ($magic, $crap, $sections, $bytes) = unpack("N4", $rpm);
  $smagic = unpack("n", $rpm);
  last if $smagic eq 0x1f8b;
  die "Error: header not recognized\n" if $magic != 0x8eade801;
  $rpm = substr($rpm, 16*(1+$sections) + $bytes);
}

die "bogus RPM\n" if $rpm eq '';

open(ZCAT, "|gzip -cd") || die "can't pipe to gzip\n";
print STDERR "CPIO archive found!\n";

print ZCAT $rpm;
close ZCAT;