Re: [SLUG] is there tar to rpm utility

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Mike Manchester wrote:
> Does anyone know of a utility that will create an rpm file from
> a tar file. I know you can us rpm to do that if there is a valid
> spec file in the tar file. But I've found that most tar files do not
> contain one. I have searched google and freshmeat with not luck.

Tar is an archive.
RPM is a package.

archive != package

Maybe package = { archive, ... } but archive != { package, ... }

So you are comparing apples to oranges.

-- TheBS

P.S. RPM uses cpio as an archive format. Cpio and tar are both
archive formats. Again, RPM is not.

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