Hi, On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Joakim Schramm wrote:
Hi thanks for answer...
Never mind. :)
Well, I understand I can't just take anything, I was more conserned regarding file format, as YaST don't (for some reason) take .tar.gz.
Thanks for the hint.
As I now have chosed SuSE as my distrib with YaST and RPM support, I also want to use it... of cause I can go the old path, but thats not realy what I want to do. If there is no .rpm available, but an updated release in .gz (which still seams to be most usual) I would like create one, instead of waiting for it eventually become available... that way I can maintain to keep my installation tidy and userfreindly. I guess thats the purpose with RPM, or?
It is, indeed.
So, how can I go on to convert a .gz package to a .rpm? Alien is obviously a tool handy in the situation, but it don't seams enough just to do a "alien --to-rpm <package.tar.gz/.tgz>
That's also true.
I tried with both proftpd1.2.0.pre1.tar.gz (renamed to .tgz) and apache 1.3.3. Yast noticed that I had an other (CD orginal) version installed and replaced it, but ftp didn't work anymore after. The new proftpd was placed otherwere and orginal was deleted. Probably some path or something was set differently by alien. YaST didn't notice I had an other version of apache instaled though.
Wow, you are adventorous. I suspect, that you now have installed source files instead of the precompiles binaries from the original RPM.
I guess I can go ahead and find things out on my own, but a few lines of direction would be great and highly appreciated. The once below is probably one step, but I don't want install that way, as it seams to bring the info of my installation out of step, causing a lot of extra work to bring it in and aline with the rest. Better use that time to work on something that can come to use for others as well. Sharing with other words. With that I would like to put my vote on what someone said about a contrib directory...
Check the RPM-HOWTO (thanks, Donnie!) for a quick intro on how to build packages. Most tar.gz-Files today only contain the sources and you have to compile them on your own. It makes no sense to install a source package with YaST... The capability of YaST to install tgz-Archives is a leftover from ancient times, when tgzs where the way of distributing binaries... Bye, LenZ ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH <A HREF="mailto:grimmer@suse.de">mailto:grimmer@suse.de</A> Schanzaeckerstr. 10 <A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer"><A HREF="http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A">http://www.suse.de/~grimmer</A</A>> 90443 Nuernberg, Germany - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e