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Re: Intent to package: rpm-4.1

> Elfyn McBratney wrote:
>
> >>FWIW, this gets my vote too -- as proposed.  We'll probably need another
> >>go-round of this once Dario gets the packages up for inspection.
> >
> >
> > +1 Here, I absolutely hate having to drop into linux just to extract
> > SRPMS...Brrrrrr.
>
> You can do that without rpm.exe -- all you need is (perl) and cpio:
>
>
http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/perl-contrib/index.html#r
pm2cpio
> (hat tip: Suhaib Siddiqi)

Cheers, Prince Charles! ;-)

Elfyn
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