On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Eric Laforest wrote: > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 02:32:32AM -0800, Doug Sutherland thus spake: > > Extra Applications > > > > rpm.tgz 2640 K rpm-3.0.2 package manager > > I wouldn't reccommend installing RPMs on a SlackWare system due > to differences in the filesystem layout. However, this could come in > real handy to take source RPMs (SRPMS) apart to get patches and > info from the specfile. > It's possible to extract the raw files out of an RPM with cpio, but I've > never done it before. There's a neat little script already on slackware to repackage PRMs into slackware's standard tar.gz format... funnily enough called rpm2tgz :) It also has an alias rpm2targz which give a full .tar.gz extension instead of the abbreviated version used in the 8.3 named slackware install files. Filesystem layout would still be an issue with some packages, but at least they're packed up in a friendly format, now. :) In another message also on Sat, 2 Dec 2000, Doug Sutherland wrote: > Here's what I'm thinking. First of all I don't want to be tweaking > the OS on a daily basis, I want a core set of functions working, > and once they are working I want to leave them alone. Also, most > of my development will be on Java (not C/C++) or microcontrollers > so I don't need all of the GNU C/C++ libs most of the time. > > I think I have a good system for this though, and the PCMCIA adapter > that comes with the IBM microdrive helps. What I will do is always > have a full blown slackware distribution installed on my laptop > drive. Most of the time the laptop drive won't be attached, but if > I need to compile a new kernel or install new packages, I remove > the microdrive from the CF socket, boot from the large distro on > the laptop drive, then mount the microdrive in the PCMCIA slot. I assime you're using LILO on the microdrive to boot linux: It would seem an easier solution to just make it dual boot. Plug the laptop drive in, hold shift on startup, and boot off the laptop drive instead, which is then set up to automatically mount the microdrive somewhere. Hmm. I realise I'm assuming two rather large things, here: 1) You DO have video display and a standard keyboard interface... You're stuffed if you're using non-standard interface eg. original twiddler. 2) The laptop drive doesn't have a second pourpose in life, since it will probably need the root partition in /etc/fstab set to the device it gets plugged in as. Rather daft things to assume, really. :) -- Josh Mayo. (Everything with a Grin :) -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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