Re: Alien to .tar.gz
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > alien -t filename.rpm is the correct way. correct. to clarify a little: .tgz and .tar.gz are functionally the same kind of file on GNUish unix systems--in practice they behave the exact same. For example, 'gunzip foo.tgz' will uncompress the file foo.tgz, and automagically rename it 'foo.tar'. (This is a feature of gzip.) Aaron > > nate > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: > > mcrobe >hi > mcrobe > > mcrobe >Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to > .tar.gz. > mcrobe >The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the > closest > mcrobe >thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... > mcrobe > > mcrobe >tks > mcrobe >Andrew > mcrobe > > mcrobe >- > mcrobe >Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) > mcrobe >IT Officer, School of Law > mcrobe >MURDOCH UNIVERSITY > mcrobe >Perth, Western Australia > mcrobe >Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] > mcrobe >Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] > mcrobe >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mcrobe >"The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" > mcrobe > > mcrobe > > mcrobe >-- > mcrobe >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > mcrobe > > > ::: > http://www.aphroland.org/ > http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 10:31pm up 22 days, 6:08, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.12, 0.03 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
Re: Alien to .tar.gz
alien -t filename.rpm is the correct way. nate On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote: mcrobe >hi mcrobe > mcrobe >Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. mcrobe >The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest mcrobe >thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... mcrobe > mcrobe >tks mcrobe >Andrew mcrobe > mcrobe >- mcrobe >Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) mcrobe >IT Officer, School of Law mcrobe >MURDOCH UNIVERSITY mcrobe >Perth, Western Australia mcrobe >Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] mcrobe >Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] mcrobe >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mcrobe >"The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" mcrobe > mcrobe > mcrobe >-- mcrobe >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null mcrobe > ::: http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:31pm up 22 days, 6:08, 1 user, load average: 0.27, 0.12, 0.03
RE: Alien to .tar.gz
cheers - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -Original Message- From: Mike Werner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 11:15 AM To: Debian-Users (E-mail) Subject: Re: Alien to .tar.gz Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. > The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest > thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... .tgz == .tar.gz -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
Re: Alien to .tar.gz
Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. > The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest > thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... .tgz == .tar.gz -- Mike Werner KA8YSD | He that is slow to believe anything and | everything is of great understanding, '91 GS500E| for belief in one false principle is the Morgantown WV | beginning of all unwisdom.
Re: Alien to .tar.gz
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:10:47AM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > hi > > Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. > The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest > thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... .tgz and .tar.gz are the same thing (a gzip compressed tar archive) -- ---===-=-==-=---==-=-- / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=--===-=-=-=-===-==---=--=---'
Alien to .tar.gz
hi Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz. The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ... tks Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math"
