Yedidya Bar-david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I never opened an RPM before, that is,
> without rpm itself, and it was not a linux machine. So I looked at the
> docs to see it has some garbage and then a gzipped cpio archive.
> I really love debian! .deb is an ar(1) with 3 files exactly:
> debian-binary, control.tar.gz, data.tar.gz. It's trivial to open on
> any unix.
I also dislike it in RPM (that they invented yet another format). Fortunately,
there is a small rpm2targz utility which you can find on sunsite; it comes with
slackware, too.
Regards,
Evgeny
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