Quick question about mandrak and their rpm Firstly I am used to RedHat and have decided to move to another distro What I used to do is grab the tarballs and run rpm --tb package.tar.gz I have found that I can't do this. Does anyone know why? Because this is a little painful if in the man pages on rpm it says you can but us get an error like this
[blah@blah tar]# rpm -tb smpeg-xmms-0.3.5.tar.gz smpeg-xmms-0.3.5.tar.gz: No such file or directory funny thing is the file is there. Has anyone seen the news with Mandrake on slashdot? This is also a snip from the mandrake site. *March 12, 2002 - Mandrake Linux's future* - "Even though all of us here at MandrakeSoft are excited about the upcoming release, we've also been distracted by financial concerns. Despite continuous good reviews in the press; despite having millions of users throughout the world; despite producing an award-winning Linux distribution that is a solid competitor to both UNIX and Window$, the Mandrake Linux distribution's short-term future is in jeopardy due to a simple factor: money". Please read our entire message here <http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/mdkfuture.php3> and participate to discussions here <http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=1989&lang=en> -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
