From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 16: 5:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jig.ordway.org (jig.ordway.org [209.98.93.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4422A14C2C for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 16:05:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Received: from localhost (cpalmer@localhost) by jig.ordway.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA05650; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:05:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from cpalmer@jig.ordway.org) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:05:13 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Palmer To: Jack James Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: files In-Reply-To: <36F4FAC9.8391D199@indy.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Jack James wrote: > 1. Will Freebsd run RPM format files? RPM files are not executables; they are software packages (which contain the excutables, among other things). I bet the RPM software would compile under FreeBSD, but if not, you can always convert RPMs to tarballs or cpio files as well. Christopher Palmer Assistant Systems Administrator, Ordway Music Theatre cpalmer@jig.ordway.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message