Intent to package: rpm-4.1

[Charles Wilson]

Elfyn McBratney wrote:

>>FWIW, this gets my vote too -- as proposed.  We'll probably need another
>>go-round of this once Dario gets the packages up for inspection.
> 
> 
> +1 Here, I absolutely hate having to drop into linux just to extract
> SRPMS...Brrrrrr.

You can do that without rpm.exe -- all you need is (perl) and cpio:

http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/perl-contrib/index.html#rpm2cpio
(hat tip: Suhaib Siddiqi)

--Chuck