Well, it you have a tool that only does rpms for distribution, that'd be one reason. Or maybe you like to be able to query information about the package or verify that all the pieces of it are still there, rpm would give you that. But I don't know why Phil was asking ?! So maybe he has some other things?
Marcy Cortes "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation." -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daryl Hoffman Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 5:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Question for a friend: RPM spec file for WAS on z? I would be interested in knowing the benefits of this over installing from the tar files or sharing the binaries across multiple images? Does this "speed up" or make the installation easier? Does this make it installable on the root partition and why would one want to do that? Just curious being a linu "newbie", but being more experienced with WebSphere. Thanks for any insight. Daryl On Feb 9, 2008 10:37 PM, Marcy Cortes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You mean like one created by something from a product that you > probably are pretty familiar with ? :) (so I have one :) > > If you want one, some open source things like tar2rpm (alien) are > worth looking at. WAS itself is not an rpm install but a java based installer. > > > Marcy Cortes > > "This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. > If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the > addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based > on this message or any information herein. If you have received this > message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail > and delete this message. > Thank > you for your cooperation." > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Phil Smith III > Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 7:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [LINUX-390] Question for a friend: RPM spec file for WAS on z? > > Does anyone have an RPM spec file for WAS on z that they can share? > -- > ...phsiii > > Phil Smith III > (703) 476-4511 (home office) > (703) 568-6662 (cell) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > -- Daryl R. Hoffman System Administrator Administrative Information Systems The Pennsylvania State University Cell/Home: 814-441-9448 Work: 814-863-3829 Website: http://www.personal.psu.edu/drh4 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
