According to the (5.3) manual, YaST has the capability of installing
.tgz files as well as .rpm files. I tried it and discovered, to my
astonishment, that if you give YaST a .tgz file it simply unpacks it.
And where? To the ROOT DIRECTORY!!! I had wondered how YaST might do
all the remaining steps of the installation, since of course those
require far more intelligence than one could expect of YaST (and are
different for different packages). The obvious answer: once YaST has
unpacked the file, it does nothing at all with the unpacked results.
So my question is this: is the YaST ability to import .tgz files of any
use whatsoever? Having imported the file, does YaST make any record of
it or provide any way of removing its contents? Or is the YaST
treatment of .tgz files a pure misfeature?
I know, of course, that I can simply unpack a .tgz file myself and put
it wherever I want it to be. My reason for preferring to use YaST is
that presumably YaST keeps an inventory of everything that's been
installed on my system, so that it's always better to use YaST than not
to use it. But it seems that for .tgz files this doesn't work at all.
Paul Abrahams
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