[Buildroot] Add cpio package to make rpm work

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sun Aug 23 14:53:17 UTC 2015


Hello Andreas,

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 14:15:18 +0200, universe II wrote:
> Dear all,
> I configured buildroot to add the rpm package to my target system, but I 
> ran into a problem when executing rpm on the target system. Reason is, 
> that a lot of rpms a packaged using the binary format of cpio. But the 
> busybox builtin cpio only supports "newc" and "crc" format. Therefore 
> the cpio package is necessary when rpm should be able to handle rpms in 
> binary format. The following patch add the cpio package to buildroot.
> 
> Regards,
> Andreas

As indicated by Vicente, we already have a cpio package in Buildroot.
So I've marked your patch as Rejected in our patch tracking system.

Best regards,

Thomas
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