From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 22 18: 6:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.physics.montana.edu (peloton.physics.montana.edu [153.90.192.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76DCA1520E for ; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:06:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.physics.montana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA24240; Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:05:37 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 19:05:36 -0700 (MST) From: Brett Taylor To: Roelof Osinga Cc: Christopher Palmer , Jack James , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: files In-Reply-To: <36F6F09C.FE3F44A2@eboa.com> 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 Hi, On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Roelof Osinga wrote: > Christopher Palmer wrote: > > > > On Sun, 21 Mar 1999, Jack James wrote: > > > > > 1. Will Freebsd run RPM format files? > 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. There's an rpm port in /usr/ports/misc/rpm: peloton: {16} more /usr/ports/misc/rpm/pkg/DESCR This is the Red Hat Package Manager. There is also a rpm2cpio converter written in perl. You still need GNU cpio and gzip, but at least you don't have to install the whole RPM manager to get the files in an RPM. See http://www.eleves.ens.fr:8080/home/espel/hacks.html I find the ports/package system much easier to use than the one version of rpm I tried awhile back. Brett *********************************************************** Brett Taylor brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu * brett@daemonnews.org * * http://www.daemonnews.org/ * *********************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message