[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > This is one of the things where RPM seems to fall short. I can "install" a
> > source package, as SRPM, but it doesn't seem to get into the RPM data
> > base.
> > I can't uninstall it, query it, or use any of the management tools that
> > RPM has for binary packages.
>
> How many of those apply, though?
>
> Query? You've got the spec file, which you are presumably interested in,
> since you're mucking around with the sources. What are you going to query?
One of the things I wanted to query, at first, was where RPM put the files.
I can't see the spec file if I don't know where it is. Now I know where things
are, but I am thinking of the newbies. I use the source more for reading,
and studying, than for compiling.
>
> You don't upgrade source packages.
Actually, I do want to upgrade source packages. And, I want to do this without
tarballs, having to go through steps to figure out where to cd to
before untarring, etc. A newbie wouldn't know enough about tar to check
this first.
>
> Uninstall? You don't uninstall user data. If you don't want something
> anymore, you just delete it.
I guess I am complaining as much that RH implies something by having
source RPMs, then treating them as if they are just tarballs.
Bob Sparks
Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity.
Never attribute to stupidity, that which can be explained by lack of
information.
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