Re: How to do QA

["Charles R. Anderson" <cra WPI EDU>]

On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 09:52:57PM -0800, David Rees wrote:
> I've been using alien to convert the packages to tarballs, unpacking the 
> last release and the update release into separate directories and then 
> check the ldd output.  This could be scripted, but would require QA 
> people to install alien.

alien isn't necessary.  Use rpm2cpio, which comes with rpm:

rpm2cpio file.rpm | cpio -idv -