Re: creating .rpm files for special installations

2011-07-22 Thread g
On 07/22/2011 08:55 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:46 PM, g wrote: >> On 07/22/2011 08:11 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: <> >>> Sorry, I wasn't intentionally obtuse :) >> 'obtuse' is by no means a word i would use in describing your help. > > Well that was a bit tongue-in-cheek :)

Re: creating .rpm files for special installations

2011-07-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 3:46 PM, g wrote: > On 07/22/2011 08:11 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > <> > >> Sorry, I wasn't intentionally obtuse :) > > 'obtuse' is by no means a word i would use in describing your help. Well that was a bit tongue-in-cheek :) Yeah, I recently (last few months) became a Fed

Re: creating .rpm files for special installations

2011-07-22 Thread g
On 07/22/2011 08:11 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: <> > Sorry, I wasn't intentionally obtuse :) 'obtuse' is by no means a word i would use in describing your help. nor 'vague', by any stretching of imagination. 'nebulous', but a stretch of it's meaning. 'guiding in a general direction' does come to m

Re: creating .rpm files for special installations

2011-07-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:37 PM, g wrote: > On 07/22/2011 02:24 PM, g wrote: > <> > >> not recalling all abilities of rpm, my question is, can rpm/yum append to >> existing files? > > to Richard Shaw and Todd Zullinger, > > i thank you for your replies. > > as yet, i have not been to rpm.org to re

Re: creating .rpm files for special installations

2011-07-22 Thread g
On 07/22/2011 02:24 PM, g wrote: <> > not recalling all abilities of rpm, my question is, can rpm/yum append to > existing files? to Richard Shaw and Todd Zullinger, i thank you for your replies. as yet, i have not been to rpm.org to refresh on operations of rpm and appending to files. i will d

Re: creating .rpm files for special installations

2011-07-22 Thread Todd Zullinger
g wrote: > on firefox tsl, a user of ubuntu needs to run a lan system wide > installation of an extension to firefox. > > a reply was to create a .deb package and put in a local repository, > add local repo to all clients repo list. > > to add an extension to firefox, appending to some config files

Re: creating .rpm files for special installations

2011-07-22 Thread Richard Shaw
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 9:24 AM, g wrote: > not recalling all abilities of rpm, my question is, can rpm/yum append to > existing files? I'm not a super experienced rpm user but I don't know of any way to do it directly with rpm but you could use a scriptlet to do the work. Depending on how the i

creating .rpm files for special installations

2011-07-22 Thread g
greetings. on firefox tsl, a user of ubuntu needs to run a lan system wide installation of an extension to firefox. a reply was to create a .deb package and put in a local repository, add local repo to all clients repo list. to add an extension to firefox, appending to some config files is requi