Where rpm2xzm Output?

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Where rpm2xzm Output?

Post#1 by johnywhy » 31 Aug 2018, 18:44

hi

i ran rpm2xzm on a file right-click.
where's the output xzm file?

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Post#2 by Ed_P » 31 Aug 2018, 18:46

Check the /tmp folder. And the /home/guest folder.
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Post#3 by johnywhy » 31 Aug 2018, 18:53

i see some txz2xzm folders, eg txz2xzm19159.
but i don't see any xzm files.

maybe the conversions failed, tho' i did get a successful-conversion message.

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Post#4 by donald » 31 Aug 2018, 20:51

The XZM file usually appears next to the original RPM file.

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Post#5 by johnywhy » 31 Aug 2018, 21:21

not appearing, so I guess the conversions failed.
trying to convert these:

http://apradar.sourceforge.net/

http://www.plutospin.com/netchoose.html

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Post#6 by donald » 31 Aug 2018, 21:55

trying to convert these:
Image

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guest@porteus:~/Downloads$ lsxzm apradar-0.52-1.i586.xzm
Parallel unsquashfs: Using 2 processors
8 inodes (8 blocks) to write


/usr
/usr/bin
/usr/bin/apradar
/usr/share
/usr/share/apradar
/usr/share/apradar/icon.xpm
/usr/share/apradar/logo.png
/usr/share/apradar/wepoff.png
/usr/share/apradar/wepon.png
/usr/share/apradar/wrench.png
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/apradar-0.52
/usr/share/doc/apradar-0.52/README
/var
/var/log
/var/log/packages
/var/log/packages/apradar-0.52-1.i586
/var/log/removed_packages
/var/log/removed_scripts
/var/log/scripts
/var/log/setup
/var/log/setup/tmp

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guest@porteus:~/Downloads$ lsxzm netchoose-0.2-1.i386.xzm
Parallel unsquashfs: Using 2 processors
9 inodes (9 blocks) to write


/usr
/usr/local
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin/netchoose
/usr/local/share
/usr/local/share/netchoose
/usr/local/share/netchoose/LICENSE
/usr/local/share/netchoose/README.txt
/usr/local/share/netchoose/activate.sh
/usr/local/share/netchoose/cells.xml
/usr/local/share/netchoose/netchoose
/usr/local/share/netchoose/oricells.xml
/var
/var/log
/var/log/packages
/var/log/packages/netchoose-0.2-1.i386
/var/log/removed_packages
/var/log/removed_scripts
/var/log/scripts
/var/log/scripts/netchoose-0.2-1.i386
/var/log/setup
/var/log/setup/tmp
guest@porteus:~/Downloads$ 

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Where rpm2xzm Output?

Post#7 by ncmprhnsbl » 31 Aug 2018, 22:52

pretty sure rpm2xzm needs the development module 05-devel.xzm]05-devel.xzm to work, or at least the binutils package.. got that wrong :)
same goes for deb2xzm..
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Post#8 by johnywhy » 01 Sep 2018, 08:25

i booted with the devel module.
still not getting any xzm output file.

where would i find binutils?

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Post#9 by brokenman » 01 Sep 2018, 17:34

As root:

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getpkg binutils
Added in 3 minutes 28 seconds:
Porteus-4.0 with NO 05_devel.xzm package loaded. AS ROOT.

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root@porteus:/home/guest/Downloads# rpm2xzm apradar-0.52-1.i586.rpm 

Slackware package maker, version 3.14159265.

Searching for symbolic links:

No symbolic links were found, so we won't make an installation script.
You can make your own later in ./install/doinst.sh and rebuild the
package if you like.

This next step is optional - you can set the directories in your package
to some sane permissions. If any of the directories in your package have
special permissions, then DO NOT reset them here!

Would you like to reset all directory permissions to 755 (drwxr-xr-x) and
directory ownerships to root.root ([y]es, [n]o)? n

Creating Slackware package:  /tmp/rpm2xzm2735/apradar-0.52-1.i586.txz

./
usr/
usr/bin/
usr/bin/apradar
usr/share/
usr/share/apradar/
usr/share/apradar/icon.xpm
usr/share/apradar/logo.png
usr/share/apradar/wepoff.png
usr/share/apradar/wepon.png
usr/share/apradar/wrench.png
usr/share/doc/
usr/share/doc/apradar-0.52/
usr/share/doc/apradar-0.52/README

Slackware package /tmp/rpm2xzm2735/apradar-0.52-1.i586.txz created.

Verifying package apradar-0.52-1.i586.txz.
Installing package apradar-0.52-1.i586.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
Package apradar-0.52-1.i586.txz installed.
Creating /tmp/rpm2xzm2735/apradar-0.52-1.i586.xzm
If this is not the case for you then you need to go back to fresh mode with nothing else loaded and see what's up.
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Post#10 by johnywhy » 01 Sep 2018, 17:54

hi brokenman!
brokenman wrote:
01 Sep 2018, 17:37
Porteus-4.0 with NO 05_devel.xzm package loaded. AS ROOT.
i dont' understand what that means.

THX
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Post#11 by brokenman » 01 Sep 2018, 18:09

It means I had no trouble converting your RPM file from a root console with no 05-devel.xzm module loaded. It works with a standard porteus install.
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