[4071] in RedHat Linux List
Re: RPM enhancement proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike OBradY)
Tue Nov 12 12:38:43 1996
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 17:43:17 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mike OBradY <moby@on-net.co.uk>
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On Tue, 12 Nov 1996, Dwight Johnson wrote:
> Rpm is great, but I still find I want to add or upgrade
> a package using tar and gunzip.
>
> If there were a way to update the rpm installed package
> database with these tarred installations, there wouldn't
> be any loose ends.
>
> Perhaps someday there could be an rpm option for it like:
>
> rpm -T package-1.2-3.rpm
>
> that would do this.
>
> Good? Bad? Flames?
>
> Dwight Johnson
> djohnson@olympus.net
>
>
or rpm -Tz package-2.0.25.rpm package-2.0.25.tar.gz
PS: I LIKE IT!!! :-)
Mike
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