Re: FAQ - revised ... again :)

["Karlis Loen" <obelisk@c-cubedinc.com>]

Again, I am corrected.

-Karlis

----- Original Message -----
From: Donovan Rebbechi <elflord@pegasus.rutgers.edu>
To: <independence-l@independence.seul.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 1999 7:52 PM
Subject: Re: FAQ - revised ... again :)


> On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Karlis Loen wrote:
>
> > I'll let you know how well Slack 7 handles RPMs.  (ala rpm.tgz...)
>
> It uses either an rpm to cpio converter, or an rpm->cpio->tgz converter
>
> It works fine, with one catch:
>
> It will not work unless:
>
> (a) You have the right versions of libc and libstdc++ on your
> system
> (b) All the right versions of the other required shared libs
> are on your system *AND* were compiled against the same libc and
> libstdc++ versions as the executables.
>
> In practice, it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. It usually doesn't
> work unless the user knows what they are doing.
>
> > And an RPM is just a tarball if you change the extension anyway.  Try it
> > sometime.  <g>
>
> No, it's not. It's a CPIO archive, with some extra structure stuck on top
> ( a header which includs dependency info, pre/post install scripts, MD5
> checksums, and other stuff )
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Donovan
>
>