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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 60942] Basic Red Hat Package (.rpm) handling
From:       Paul Bolle <pebolle () tiscali ! nl>
Date:       2003-07-09 22:03:05
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------- Additional Comments From pebolle@tiscali.nl  2003-07-10 00:03 -------
Thanks for commenting on my bug (and on my comment on bug 59020). 
 
I'm not sure whether rpm's were made to be installed only. (Were deb's made to be 
installed only?) Anyway, adding files to an rpm seems indeed to be a bad idea (deleting a 
file from an rpm doesn't sound to smart, too). 
 
But "opening" an rpm, viewing its contents (mostly files, but also "meta-data") is another 
story. And there's nothing wrong with extracting files from an rpm too... at least, I do it 
quite often. rpm2cpio seems to have been created for that purpose. Please note that 
Maximum RPM, a great book on rpm's, has got a paragraph called "Extracting one or 
more files from a package file", explaining how to use rpm2cpio for that purpose. 
 
So I still think it would be nice if Ark would support those actions (opening rpm's, viewing 
of the files "archived" in an rpm, extracting files from an rpm) too.
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