On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:41:43 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Thanks Neil, is that the equivalent of running: > > > > yum install /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/packageXXX.el5.i386.rpm
> No. It is equivalent to running rpm2targz on RH and them extracting > the tarball to / :P It is equivalent to extracting *any* tarball to / > for that matter. More specifically, it does not run any pre/post-install scripts in the RPM. There is an rpm package too, but this almost always fails because the RPM database shows no dependencies installed. > If you're familiar with ebuilds, you can write one that does all this > so you can do "emerge packageXXX" to install it. And there's an rpm.eclass to do some of the work for you. -- Neil Bothwick I've seen the procedure hundreds of times. - Qwark
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