[PLUG] Problem in building RPM package

Mark Martin mmartin at u.washington.edu
Wed Mar 12 06:08:13 UTC 2003


On Wednesday 12 March 2003 07:02, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi all folks
>
> I encountered problem in building a RPM package.  Steps carried out as
> follows;

Well, first of all, a tar file is not an rpm package.  Here are a few commands 
for dealing with tar files

tar tvf file.tar  (lists files in the tar archive)
tar xf file.tar   (extracts all files in the tar archive)

See the man page for tar for more information.

Mark
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