Re: [SLUG] is there tar to rpm utility

From: edoc (kd4e@arrl.net)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 11:09:52 EDT


Bryan,

   You have confused me ... not a real challenge! :-)

TAR is an archiving methodology that contains its own unique archiving
utility?

RPM is an archiving methodology that uses CPIO as its archiving utility?

Doc

> Tar is an archive.
> RPM is a package.
>
> archive != package
>
> Maybe package = { archive, ... } but archive != { package, ... }
>
> So you are comparing apples to oranges.
>
> -- TheBS
>
> P.S. RPM uses cpio as an archive format. Cpio and tar are both
> archive formats. Again, RPM is not.
>
> --
> Bryan "TheBS" Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org chat:thebs413
> Engineer AbsoluteValue Systems, Inc. http://www.linux-wlan.org
> President SmithConcepts, Inc. http://www.SmithConcepts.com
>



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