Re: How to do QA

[David Rees <drees greenhydrant com>]

Charles R. Anderson wrote, On 2/8/2004 10:00 PM:
> 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 -

Thanks for the tip!

-Dave