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. -- .###. /#######\## -==============================================- ;##### ;# Mike's WindowMaker ;##### ;# <A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html"><A HREF="http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A">http://tasteslikechicken.ml.org/windowmaker.html</A</A>> \# /## -==============================================- ###'---'#### - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e