From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 17:37: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B5E14F59 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:36:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from charon.eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA21212; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:36:39 +0100 (MET) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by charon.eboa.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA01891; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:35:32 +0100 Message-ID: <36F6F09C.FE3F44A2@eboa.com> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:38:36 +0100 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Palmer Cc: Jack James , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: files References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Palmer wrote: > > 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. Have managed to steer clear from RPM files. But what I've gathered is that they were invented to increase user-friendliness. We slackware (and its predecessor whose name I can't recall SLR or something) use tarballed source files, RPMs are packed executables. IOW they can't compile under FreeBSD. OTOH, most RPMs started live as tarball, so ... Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message