At 7:38 pm, Monday, September 23 2002, Matthew Hannigan mumbled: > rpm is a superset of tar, so why don't you > just convert your tar to rpm? > No, an rpm is a hacked cpio archive.
> I think alien will do that .. or most of it. > > http://kitenet.net/programs/alien/ > Alien can certain go back and forth between a slackware package, a .deb, or .rpm, but the latter two require dpkg and rpm installed, respectively. -- Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
