request for statistics on use of `include' in signatures

Matthew Fluet fluet@CS.Cornell.EDU
Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:58:21 -0400 (EDT)


> Here is the magic to using source RPM's.

I prefer the following:

rpm2cpio mlton-20010806-1.src.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories

which just leaves you with a mlton-20010806.tgz and a mlton.spec file in
the current directory.

Likewise,

rpm2cpio mlton-20010806-1.i386.rpm | cpio -i --make-directories

will leave you a usr/ directory in the current directory and you can move
the executable and support files.  (Just remember to update the mlton
script in /usr/local/bin to point the place where the support files in
/usr/local/lib/mlton got put.)

> In your home directory make a file called
> which consists of the following line:
>     %_topdir        ???
> where  ???  is  the  full  path  name  to  some  new directory you have write
> permission for.

The file name should be .rpmmacros