On Sat, 17 Jan 1998 23:18:06 -0500 
 kollar@stc.net (Larry E Kollar) wrote:

 > And... of course, this is Redhat's distribution, so all the source code
 > is stuck inside RPMs!  (RPM=Redhat Package Manager, a package distribution
 > method that has caught on big-time in Linux-land)  While NetBSD has its
 > own way of managing software packages, I wonder if there's such a thing
 > as an RPM-to-tarball utility.  I'd hate to have to FTP source code that's
 > already on a disk right in front of me.

You can actually build RPM from NetBSD's pkgsrc: /usr/pkgsrc/misc/rpm.

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