Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-18 Thread Giorgio Bellussi
Safin wrote: On 1/17/06, Yu Safin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/17/06, Giorgio Bellussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "--no-upgrade-chk" should avoid network connections. "... If your environment requires the use of a proxy, simply set the environment variable as indicated below in (bash fo

Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-17 Thread Yu Safin
On 1/17/06, Yu Safin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/17/06, Giorgio Bellussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "--no-upgrade-chk" should avoid network connections. > > "... > > If your environment requires the use of a proxy, simply set the > > environment variable as indicated below in (bash fo

Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-17 Thread Yu Safin
On 1/17/06, Giorgio Bellussi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "--no-upgrade-chk" should avoid network connections. > "... > If your environment requires the use of a proxy, simply set the > environment variable as indicated below in (bash format): > > export HTTP_PROXY=http://user:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-17 Thread Giorgio Bellussi
"--no-upgrade-chk" should avoid network connections. "... If your environment requires the use of a proxy, simply set the environment variable as indicated below in (bash format): export HTTP_PROXY=http://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080 ..." (http://perl.arix.com/cpan2rpm/man.html) Regards.

Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-16 Thread Yu Safin
On 1/16/06, John Summerfied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carsten Otte wrote: > > Giorgio Bellussi wrote: > > > >>With cpan2rpm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpan2rpm/) you can build > >>your rpm from CPAN tar.gz archive. Some package requires some additional > >>work but in my (poor) experience

Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-16 Thread John Summerfied
Carsten Otte wrote: Giorgio Bellussi wrote: With cpan2rpm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpan2rpm/) you can build your rpm from CPAN tar.gz archive. Some package requires some additional work but in my (poor) experience the tool works fine with most of them. Just in case Dag misses your needs

Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-16 Thread Carsten Otte
Giorgio Bellussi wrote: > With cpan2rpm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpan2rpm/) you can build > your rpm from CPAN tar.gz archive. Some package requires some additional > work but in my (poor) experience the tool works fine with most of them. > Just in case Dag misses your needs. Alien works fi

Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-16 Thread Giorgio Bellussi
With cpan2rpm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpan2rpm/) you can build your rpm from CPAN tar.gz archive. Some package requires some additional work but in my (poor) experience the tool works fine with most of them. Just in case Dag misses your needs. Regards. G John Summerfied wrote: Yu Safin

Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-16 Thread Giorgio Bellussi
With cpan2rpm (http://sourceforge.net/projects/cpan2rpm/) you can build your rpm from CPAN tar.gz archive. Some package requires some additional work but in my (poor) experience the tool works fine with most of them. Just in case Dag misses your needs. Regards. G John Summerfied wrote: Yu Safin

Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-14 Thread John Summerfied
Yu Safin wrote: On 1/11/06, Post, Mark K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If the RPM name has noarch in it, it means it does not contain any binary files specific to a particular architecture. If it has i386, s390x, or anything like that, it is almost guaranteed to not run on any architecture other

Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-12 Thread Yu Safin
gt; Mark Post > > -Original Message- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yu > Safin > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:39 PM > To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU > Subject: Some Doubts > > > Some doubts: (cross posted with the OpenSuSE forum) &g

Re: Some Doubts

2006-01-11 Thread Post, Mark K
build a "binary" RPM from it. Mark Post -Original Message- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yu Safin Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 6:39 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Some Doubts Some doubts: (cross posted with the OpenSuSE forum) 1)

Some Doubts

2006-01-11 Thread Yu Safin
Some doubts: (cross posted with the OpenSuSE forum) 1) I am not clear as to why some rpm's are named i386 and some noarch. eg) perl-libwww-perl-5.801-8.noarch.rpm perl-GDTextUtil-0.86-8.i386.rpm I suspect the i386 means Intel but when I install a perl i386 rpm on my Mainframe z890 it