Hi there,
I'm setting up my old computer (Duron 1100) with Mandrake 10.0 official, so that I can sell it. I also wish to go to town on setting it up, with the best software so that the new owner is gonna get the best intro to linux! I hope to LAN all those apps across from my new computer, since most apps I've downloaded the rpm or source manually. Gimp 2.0 however came from contrib using rpmdrake, so there is no single rpm file to transfer...
My question is this...can I build an rpm from an already-installed software package? If I could I would be able to just copy Gimp 2.0 across the LAN to the old PC, without needing to install contrib or plf to urpmi sources on the old one...the synthesis and hdlist for contrib and plf take over an hour to download alone, and then I'd need to get Gimp 2.0...yet another 1.5 hours of modem time I don't have! :-)
-- Kind regards,
Chris Wilkinson, Christchurch, New Zealand. Canterbury Horse Taxis. http://www.horsetaxis.co.nz/
