Hi *,

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 11:18:32AM -0800, Gary E. Miller wrote:
> [...] 
> I have a large variety of 5 and even 10 year old Linux systems that
> have been continously upgraded.  These systems are now so idiosyncartic
> that no RPM system has a chance of groking it.

? you can install a rpm without having other packages in the rpm
database. In this case simply use the --nodeps flag.

> Hard enough for me to use RPMs, teching my clients how to do it will
> never work.

You can use rpm2cpio.

> Trying to force me to distro specific tools like rpm managers

rpm is not distro-specific.

ciao
Christian
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NP: Metallica - The God That Failed

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