diald - rpm or tar.gz

2000-12-13 Thread Bob Hartung
Ok, now that I have a kernel built a really basic but perplexing question: Will an rpm of diald built for Mandrake run properly on a RH7.0 box or must I revert to the tar.gz version? TIA Bob -- Bob Hartung www.radiologygrouppc.com www.qchealthwatch.com __

Re: rpm or tar.gz

1998-03-11 Thread Jonathan Peterson
At 09:54 AM 3/11/98 -0700, you wrote: >since it was brougt up, could anyone tell me the pros and cons about >redhat vs. devian vs. slackware vs caldera etc. Arg. Here come 500+ emails :) I have used Slackware in the past because I'm an OldTimer (tm), and recently grabbed RedHat to see what all

Re: rpm or tar.gz

1998-03-11 Thread Blake Thornton
since it was brougt up, could anyone tell me the pros and cons about redhat vs. devian vs. slackware vs caldera etc. I heard that to upgrade debian, all you have to do is go to their web page and ask them to determine which packages needed upgraded. this would appear to be quite benificial.

Re: RPM or tar.gz? Was: Re: screader source

1998-03-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
> The resume might be: > If you have a rpm based system, you have advantages installing files as > rpm packages. But you also are free to install files as tar.gz archives. > It compares to an airplane where you can switch on the auto pilot. It has > advantages but you also can fly by hand. >