Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1377 mails)

[satan3@xxxxxxxx (Michael Lankton)]

Mark Wagnon wrote:
> 
> I've never messed with source rpms for redhat. What happens to the
> install path if you run alien on a src rpm? I've never messed with
> alien for that matter. Does alien change the install paths to
> coincide with SuSE's? Cool.

No, Alien is not a S.u.S.E. app, it's just a generic perl script. 
Usually if you convert an rpm to tgz you get a tgz, which if you untgz
it will produce another tgz and the specs file.  This second tgz will
usually just create a dir named for the app when you untgz it, but once
in awhile it will intall to a specific path, it must just depend on who
put the original rpm together.  Source rpms just become source tgzs.


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