Re: Alien to .tar.gz
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, nate@firetrail.com wrote:
> alien -t filename.rpm is the correct way.
correct. to clarify a little: .tgz and .tar.gz are functionally the same
kind of file on GNUish unix systems--in practice they behave the exact
same. For example, 'gunzip foo.tgz' will uncompress the file foo.tgz, and
automagically rename it 'foo.tar'. (This is a feature of gzip.)
Aaron
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> nate
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> On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Andrew McRobert wrote:
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> mcrobe >hi
> mcrobe >
> mcrobe >Does anyone know the syntax to use 'alien' to convert from rpm to .tar.gz.
> mcrobe >The man page says this can be done, but doesn't say how ... the closest
> mcrobe >thing listed is "alien -t [file]" which produces [file].tgz ...
> mcrobe >
> mcrobe >tks
> mcrobe >Andrew
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