Graham, If you just want to get the files out try this:
work within a temp directory rpm2cpio < kernel.rpm > kernel.cpio cpio --make-directories --extract --verbose < kernel.cpio Enjoy, Jason -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org]On Behalf Of Graham Stoney Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2000 11:15 PM To: Pavel Roskin Cc: Wohlgemuth Jason; 'linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org' Subject: Unpacking the mvista kernel RPMs Pavel Roskin writes: > By the way, I found a newer kernel (March, 23) in > ftp://ftp.mvista.com/pub/CDK/updates/1.0/ppc_8xx/SRPMS/ How does one go about unpacking one of these RPMs? I tried ftp'ing the rpm and going: % rpm -i hhl-kernel-2.2.13-7.src.rpm % rpm -bp /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/hhl-kernel-2.2.13.spec ... cp: configs/%{_hhl_kernel_configs}: No such file or directory Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.689 (%prep) Can anyone please help me get the hang of RPM? I'm sure it's _supposed_ to make my life easier, but... Thanks, Graham ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
