On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:35:08PM -0500, Bret Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 10:42, José Romildo Malaquias wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:09:04AM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > > > > > Toralf Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > I notice that on a Red Hat + GNOMEhide setup using Nautilus, there is > > > > no handler configured for RPM files. Why? > > > > > > Because there's no good app to handle them. > > > > The application that used to work with RPM files, letting one to > > look inside it and operate on their contents is gmc, not distributed > > anymore with Red Hat Linux. Remains the Midnight Commander (mc), a very > > good text based file manager capable of that. In fact, gmc is a > > like a GUI version of mc. > > Really? on a brand new rh7.2 install: > [bhughes@zenon bhughes]$ rpm -qf $(which gmc) > gmc-4.5.51-36 > [bhughes@zenon bhughes]$ uname -r > 2.4.9-31 > [bhughes@zenon bhughes]$ cat /etc/redhat-release > Red Hat Linux release 7.2 (Enigma)
I was wrong. It is still there. But based on the current Skipjack beta 2 (version 2.7.93), gmc will not be in the next Red Hat Linux release: $ rpm --dbpath /usr/lib/rpmdb/i386-redhat-linux/redhat -q gmc package gmc is not installed $ rpm -q --changelog mc [...] * Fri Jan 25 2002 Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - rebuild in rawhide - fix prefix/share -> datadir - comment out gmc/mcserv subpackages, place order for asbestos suit > You also might want to look at rpm2cpio if you want to look into an rpm Yes, although in a awkward manner. Romildo -- Prof. José Romildo Malaquias Departamento de Computação http://iceb.ufop.br/~romildo Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brasil [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
