Re: [aclug-L] Flame bait... (distribution question)

[Jeff <schaller@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This really does have flame potential.  We'll step carefully :)

On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Bob Deep wrote:

> The problem with Red Hat is that when you install using a tar file, your
> system's RPM database is not updated, and RPM will blindly do things to
> break you if you are not careful..

One can always build an RPM from the tarball... I did this a while ago
for _something_ that was having version problems, can't remember what.

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