Hi,
I guess it would be easier to think of a tar.gz file as a compressed zip file
in
windows while an rpm as a more complex installing .exe file on windows but the
rpm is for Linux.
Cheers,
Aly.
Kent Borg wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 01:30:56PM +0530, Ashwin Khandare wrote:
>
>>Does anyone knows about any script/tool that can convert tar.gz
>>files into rpms?
>
>
> There are certainly tools to help one create rpm files (such as rpm
> itself), but there isn't going to be a simple universal converter
> because rpm and tar.gz files are not the same kind of things.
>
> A tar file is nothing be a way to collect a bunch of files into a
> single file. A gz file is nothing but a compressed file. A tar.gz
> file is a compressed collection of files.
>
> The files that go into a tar.gz file can be anything. They can be
> source code that needs to be compiled (they can be buggy source code
> that won't compile!). They can be binary code that is ready to
> execute. They can be music, they can be dirty pictures, they can be
> forgeign language dictionaries, they can be old e-mail, they can be
> seismic data. Anything that you can put in a file you can put into a
> tar.gz file, and you can do so on nearly any kind of computer or
> operating system.
>
> A rpm file, by contrast, is explicit details about how to install and
> how to uninstall something on a Red Hat Linux computer--along with the
> "something". (The tar.gz file is only "something".) rpm files also
> include dependency information detailing what the prerequisites are
> for some something.
>
> So I think the question has several (possibly annoying) answers. Pick
> one.
>
> - If you want to install something on your own machine: Find the rpm
> file that Red Hat (or someone else responsible) has created, and
> install it.
>
> - If you want to install something on your own machine and there is
> no rpm version available: Uncompress and untar the file, and start
> looking for a "README" or other instructions on how to install from
> that form.
>
> - If you have some package of your own that you want to distribute to
> others as an rpm file: Find someone nerdy who knows all about
> making rpm files and have him/er do it for you; or learn a bunch of
> groady details about rpm yourself and do it yourself.
>
>
> There might be a tool that can figure out how to take source code that
> includes a well behaved "configure" script and well behaved "install"
> and "uninstall" Make targets and compile and build you an rpm. Sounds
> complicated and like something that would need some expert manual
> steps, but maybe someone else knows about it.
>
>
> Hope this was helpful,
>
> -kb, the Kent who has never make an rpm file.
>
>
>
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