Re: [AVFS] ucpio fails when listing an RPM

On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 05:53:41 -0400, Peter wrote:

> Making more trouble!
> 
> I was experimenting with viewing an RPM file using avfs with fuse, version
> 0.9.7.
> 
> ls ~/.avfs/$PWD/rpmfile.rpm#
> 
> which properly shows a listing of its contents: CONTENTS.cpio  HEADER 
> INFO  INSTALL  UPGRADE
> 
> Now, I had a problem trying to actually view the cpio CONTENTS within the
> rpm!
> 
> No matter what I did, add /CONTENTS.cpio# to the end, nothing was
> displayed. If I open up mc and traverse through the file it seems to work.
> 
> My question is, is there an issue when using the ext2fs lib scripts from
> within an archive that avfs is looking at? OR am I doing something wrong?
> 
> Is there a way to view the contents within an RPM file with avfs?
> 
> Thx

Sorry, I was just looking a little deeper, and it appears even regular
files are not able to be viewed (i.e. cat
~/.avfs/...rpmfile.rpm#/filename). They all show as 0 bytes length (mc
shows 0 also), and no output is seen.


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