Re: [SLUG] is there tar to rpm utility

From: Ron KA4INM Youvan (ka4inm@qsl.net)
Date: Tue Sep 25 2001 - 15:22:09 EDT


Hi all:

(Thanks for the RPM explanation.)

> > 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

  Not here, if it isn't the source, (or a binary) I don't
know what to do with it.
(Slackware is `BSD like' in many respects, I am told.)
I `un-gz' and `un-tar' with mc. If the dependencies fail
I just delete the directory. (too common)

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