Re: StarOffice 5.1 RPM

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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Al Hudson wrote:

> What the hell cpio is doing with an RPM, I don't know.

RPM uses cpio for its archiving iirc..take a look at the rpm2targz utility
included with Slackware (well, my Slack4 has it) - nifty little util for
those who don't like using RPMs.

As for the problem mentioned, i would say that unless your system *IS* Red
Hat (not Red Hat-based, such as Mandrake), then you can't guarantee that
all RPMs will work. I think maybe a nice touch on the LA covercd would be
to include gzipped tarballs a well as the RPMs.

Andy.

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