Re: source RPM "(contains no files)"

[Tim Mooney <mooney dogbert cc ndsu NoDak edu>]

In regard to: Re: source RPM "(contains no files)", Jeff Johnson said (at...:

> > > I created an rpm with rpm-3.0.6.  I subsequently upgraded to rpm
> > > 4.4.6.  Now when I list the rpm contents with 'rpm -qip <package>'
> > > I get
> > >
> > >   (contains no files)
> >
> > I've seen this too, though I thought it was because the Source RPMs in
> > questions were generated with RPM 2.5.6.
>
> Yep. rpm-3.0.x and earlier stored paths as absolute file names,
> rpm-4.0.x and later stores paths as a (dirname,basename,dirindex)
> triple.
>
> I've removed the code from rpm-4.4.6 after years of patiently waiting.
>
> I'll be happy to send you a patch to restore the behavior, and writing a
> conversion utility is not hard either (but all signatures/digests on the 
> original
> package will be lost).

I certainly don't need it; when I need to explode one of our older
source RPMs, I just use your rpm2cpio script to extract the bits.
Works great.

Tim
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