Hi,
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
> According to the (5.3) manual, YaST has the capability of installing
> .tgz files as well as .rpm files. I tried it and discovered, to my
> astonishment, that if you give YaST a .tgz file it simply unpacks it.
> And where? To the ROOT DIRECTORY!!! I had wondered how YaST might do
> all the remaining steps of the installation, since of course those
> require far more intelligence than one could expect of YaST (and are
> different for different packages). The obvious answer: once YaST has
> unpacked the file, it does nothing at all with the unpacked results.
>
> So my question is this: is the YaST ability to import .tgz files of
> any use whatsoever? Having imported the file, does YaST make any
> record of it or provide any way of removing its contents? Or is the
> YaST treatment of .tgz files a pure misfeature?
>
> I know, of course, that I can simply unpack a .tgz file myself and put
> it wherever I want it to be. My reason for preferring to use YaST is
> that presumably YaST keeps an inventory of everything that's been
> installed on my system, so that it's always better to use YaST than
> not to use it. But it seems that for .tgz files this doesn't work at
> all.
This feature is a leftover from the times before RPM, when software
packages where shipped as gzipped tar-Files (Like Slackware does).
However, these files have to have the correct directory structure and
should contain executables. This feature does not work with source
archives.
Bye,
LenZ
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