Ron KA4INM Youvan wrote:
> don't know what a RPM file really is,
It used to mean RedHat Package Manager, but it is now a less
vendor-centric, GNU-like recursive algorithm: RPM Package Manager
> I do run rpm2gtz on them if it is the only format I can find.
Again, that's because:
package = { archive, ... }
archive != { package, ... }
Going from a package to an archive is just a matter of stripping out
the package info and possibly converting between package formats
(like CPIO -> Tar).
> Humor a dummy (Slackware user) here please, if you have
> the gtz version of a program, why do you need to make it
> into a RPM form?
As the BSD guys say, "if it ain't source, you don't want it." ;-PPP
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