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[Blair Zajac]

On Aug 7, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> 
> On Aug 7, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Blair Zajac wrote:
> 
>> For ports that pick up many dependencies, such as rpm52, we have two choices, either to install all dependencies or have variants.  rpm52 will find these dependencies:
>> 
>> checking for curl... /opt/local/bin/curl
>> checking for gpg... /opt/local/bin/gpg
>> checking for hg... /opt/local/bin/hg
>> checking for install-info... /opt/local/bin/install-info
>> checking for lzma... /opt/local/bin/lzma
>> checking for svn... /opt/local/bin/svn
>> checking for wget... /opt/local/bin/wget
>> checking for xar... /opt/local/bin/xar
>> checking for xz... /opt/local/bin/xz
>> checking for doxygen... /opt/local/bin/doxygen
>> 
>> If you just wanted to get rpm2cpio, then this is a lot to build.  However, I have them installed and don't mind rpm52 using them, but as it stands, port doesn't know there's a dependency that rpm52 found.
>> 
> 
> If all you want/need is rpm2cpio, then grab the shell script and
> put it someplace:
> 	scripts/rpm2cpio*
> Add it to port tools if you wish … its just a script.

Thanks, I wasn't aware there was a shell script that did the same thing, on my Linux systems rpm2cpio is always a binary, which is also provided by the package.

Blair