[wplug] I'm a Linux whimp (need kernel help)

Jonathan Billings jsbillings at gmail.com
Mon Aug 15 16:05:04 EDT 2005


On 8/15/05, Chester R. Hosey <Chester.Hosey at gianteagle.com> wrote:
> Even unpacking a SRPM is a pain -- rpm2cpio? What for? Why isn't RPM
> based on standard format in the first place?

What's a standard format?  CPIO is a pretty common archive format.  I
tried and failed to find an RFC for a "standard" for packaging an
installable binary and documentation.


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  Jonathan Billings
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