On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 09:09 -0700, jeff stern wrote: > okay, thank you for the careful and detailed explanation, sandra. > > hmm.. i guess "i wish" there were a simple/easy way to register certain > files from (a vendor's) tarball with one's own rpm db, without making a > separate rpm for a vendor's stuff.. but maybe this goes against the > whole design of rpm.. There's always the option of repackaging the tarball or tarball-wrapped-inside-rpm vendor "rpm" - that's what I've been doing for ages for all commercial software I have to deal with simply for my own sanity's sake :) - Panu -
