Re: [newbie] RPMS - tarballs --- Can it be done ?

2001-07-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
IIRC (haven't tried it in a while), if you try to install a .src.rpm file as if it were a binary .rpm (rpm -ivh file.rpm), it will extract to the directories under /usr/src/RPM. On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 18:18, Michel Clasquin wrote: Is it possible to somehow strip an RPM of the deps info etc and

[newbie] RPMS - tarballs --- Can it be done ?

2001-07-22 Thread Rob
Is it possible to somehow strip an RPM of the deps info etc and make a tarball from it? I have no immediate need to do this but it might be handy to know how to do it should the need arise. TIA Rob