From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 17:46:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (mail1.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBAC15345 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:46:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-65-156.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.65.156]) by mail1.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA26336; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:44:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id UAA64156; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:44:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) To: roelof@eboa.com Cc: cpalmer@jig.ordway.org, indyjj@indy.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: files In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:38:36 +0100" <36F6F09C.FE3F44A2@eboa.com> References: <36F6F09C.FE3F44A2@eboa.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990322204447G.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 20:44:47 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 40 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG /usr/ports/misc/rpm Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net From: Roelof Osinga Subject: Re: files Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 02:38:36 +0100 > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message