Re: RFE: rpm2cpio should not need db3

[Jeff Johnson <jbj JBJ ORG>]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2001 at 05:10:47PM +0000, Edward Avis wrote:
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> >From: Jeff Johnson <jbj@JBJ.ORG>
> >Reply-To: rpm-list@redhat.com
> >To: rpm-list@redhat.com
> >Subject: Re: RFE: rpm2cpio should not need db3
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> >>I'd like to request that rpm2cpio be built _not_ linked against db3,
> >>so that if the db3 installation gets messed up somehow (as happened to
> >>me when rpm crashed while upgrading db3) you can still use it.
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> >So use the attached shell script <shrug>
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> Any chance of this script being included as the standard
> version of rpm2cpio?  It seems to do everything that the C version does.

Well, the script doesn't do
	rpm2cpio ftp://host/path/file | ...
nor does it do (I forget the syntax)
	cat foo*.rpm | rpm2cpio - | ...

Otherwise I anticipate ripping out the current rpm2cpio and replacing
with the script somewhen done the road, I'm just lazy.

73 de Jeff

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