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Re: [PLUG] Re: PLUG digest, Vol 1 #752 - 10 msgs
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> I've never used tarballs; partly because I'm used to the convenience of tools,
> say RPM for example, and because I don't know Linux well, didn't want to get
> stuck way over my head......So, how do I use tarballs instead of RPM? If I
> install using a tarball, that means the RPM database will be out of synch
> doesn't it? I guess that doesn't matter for someone not using RPM.
>
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There are SRPMs, too. RehHat is the maintainer of quite a few packages.
And some are just not available as tarballs - pwdb, for instance.
You can extract tarball from the SRPM package.
SRPM package also has necessary patches, which are mostly _not_ RH-specific.
It makes sense before building an aged packade ( Berkeley db1.85, for instance )
to open the corresponding SRPM and see what patches are available and what they
address.
Sergey Ostrovsky.
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