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Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 22:15:43 -0400
From: "Charles S. Wilson" <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
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To: "A.R. Burgers" <arburgers@hetnet.nl>
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Subject: Re: Problem using rpm on Windows 98 (partly solved)
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Based on my quick perusal of the source code, it appears that the
problem *is* a text/binary mount issue. The source code needs to be
patched with a lot of #ifdef CYGWIN's and O_BINARY's. Unfortunately I
can't do this right now. Workaround (for now) is to use binary mounts
for rpm.exe.

One strange thing, though - I changed all my mounts to text, and it
worked fine for me (even though, according to the source code, the files
are *not* opened correctly). Weird. 

--Chuck

"A.R. Burgers" wrote:
> 
> Suhaib Siddiqi wrote:
> 
> > Do not know about rpm, but you can get rpm2cpio script
> > from http://cygutils.netpedia.net/, extract the contents of rpm and
> > install it manually by copying the extracted files/directories to
> > the desired location.
> 
> Thanks for your fast response and your hint.
> 
> I tried both rpm2cpio from cygutils.netpedia.net and the rpm2cpio.pl
> script (from www.rpm.org).
> 
> rpm2cpio says:
> error reading header from package
> 
> rpm2cpio.pl says:
> bogus RPM.
> 
> This hold for rpms perl-DBI-1.13-1-cygwinb20.i386.rpm and
> perl-DelimMatch-1.04-1-cygwinb20.i386.rpm
> 
> I managed to get rpm2cpio.pl to work by specifying
> binmode on the filehandle to the rpm archive.
> 
> So the problem is probably that rpm2cpio (and probably rpm)
> don't open their files in binary mode. Is something set wrong in my
> environment? Are my file opens text by default and not binary?
> 
> my $CYGWIN variable is empty.
> The output of mount is:
> 
> Device           Directory           Type        Flags
> C:               /                   native      text!=binary
> 
> Teun Burgers
> 
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