On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 10:18:37AM +0930, David Fitch wrote:
> [ ... ]
> this subject has been well battered to death by now (i'm fed up
> with it anyway)).
I'll leave you alone after one last suggestion:
> As I think I've shown rpms won't do what I want in this
> case so I'm stuck and can't use just an rpm. Thanks all those
> who suggested things.
rpm is a superset of tar, so why don't you
just convert your tar to rpm?
I think alien will do that .. or most of it.
http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/
Regards,
Matt
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