On Tue, 22 Dec 1998, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 06:19:02PM -0500, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
> > As to make, I guess you don't use make -n install. It doesn't actually
> > install, just shows you what's going to happen.
>
> Wow. You can do the same thing with rpm!
>
> rpm -qpl packagename
>
> lists what it's going to install.
>
> rpm -q --scripts shows you the scripts that it'll run. It'll even
> show you what script it runs after de-isntalling.
>
> > That's one way. Another
> > is to actually look at (and modify if necessary) the makefiles before you
> > even start. Knowing where things are gonna go in advance is something I
> > learned a long time ago with earlier versions of innd.
>
> Same w/ rpm. So what's your point?
Try to keep up, Peter. 1) I don't use RedHat's software. 2) I don't use
RPMs. So what's your point? I should change operating systems to please
you? Don't hold your breath. As I said before, my *opinion* of RPMs is
that it's causing a dumbing down of sysadmins.
There are qmail RPMs out there now and we still get questions from people
that don't know how to make the simplist of changes and give us dumb looks
when we tell them what they're supposed to do.
Vince.
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