[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 2/6/99 7:41:50 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
>
> > Yes you do.
> >
> > alien -i file.tgz
> >
>
> Now THERE'S a new concept - using alien on a tar/gzipped file? Interesting...
> always thought alien just converted rpms to
In a message dated 2/6/99 7:41:50 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Yes you do.
>
> alien -i file.tgz
>
Now THERE'S a new concept - using alien on a tar/gzipped file? Interesting...
always thought alien just converted rpms to debs...
-Jay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That's not realistic. Of course, we'd all prefer to use .deb packages, but I
> don't have the time, nore the inclination to change all of the packages I'd
> like to try out to debian format first.
Yes you do.
alien -i file.tgz
It's that simple.
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In a message dated 2/2/99 7:41:32 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mpo.gc.ca writes:
> > 1) dpkg won't track anything done by installation scripts after
> > dpkg does it's configuration.
>
> You can archive everything under /etc for that (config files).
> Anything else done in pos
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> In a message dated 2/1/99 4:38:43 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:
> > > There's a nifty little program PCMag wrote for Win that tracks
> installations,
> > > and I'd like to have this functionality in Linux. Before I write my
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 1) dpkg won't track anything done by installation scripts after
> dpkg does it's configuration.
You can archive everything under /etc for that (config files).
Anything else done in postinst will be recreated correctly
when you reinstall.
> 2) dpkg won't track non-deb
Hello,
> > > There's a nifty little program PCMag wrote for Win that tracks
> > > installations, and I'd like to have this functionality in Linux.
> > > Before I write my own, is there a utility that will do the same
> > > thing?
> >
> > dpkg does all of this :-)
> >
>
> I knew dpkg did the
Subject: Tracking installs
Date: Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 04:44:16PM -0500
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Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> There's a nifty little program PCMag wrote for Win that tracks installations,
> and I'd like to have this functionality in Linux
In a message dated 2/1/99 4:38:43 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> > There's a nifty little program PCMag wrote for Win that tracks
installations,
> > and I'd like to have this functionality in Linux. Before I write my own,
is
> > there a utility that will do the same thin
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote:
: On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
: > I knew dpkg did the install, but where does it track what it did? Is
there a
: > dpkg log somewhere?
:
: dpkg -l lists packages installed.
: dpkg --get-selections produces an output which you coul
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I knew dpkg did the install, but where does it track what it did? Is there a
> dpkg log somewhere?
dpkg -l lists packages installed.
dpkg --get-selections produces an output which you could later feed to
dpkg --set-selections to restore a ***ed syste
In a message dated 2/1/99 4:31:32 PM Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > There's a nifty little program PCMag wrote for Win that tracks
> installations,
> > and I'd like to have this functionality in Linux. Before I write my own,
> is
> > there a utility that will do the same
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> There's a nifty little program PCMag wrote for Win that tracks installations,
> and I'd like to have this functionality in Linux. Before I write my own, is
> there a utility that will do the same thing?
dpkg does all of this :-)
Matthew
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