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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!news.he.net!news.onramp.net!news.nkn.net!news.panther.net!nemesis!hammy!news-in.iadfw.net!news.gymnet.com!LSNT1!lsbsdi6.lightspeed.net!news-ana-7.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!news-west.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!opus.anet-stl.com!forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com!doogie From: Jason Young <doogie@forbidden-donut.anet-stl.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: has anybody used rpm on FreeBSD? Date: 1 Jun 1997 21:48:42 GMT Organization: Western Pacific Network Services Lines: 19 Message-ID: <0B8A329E96239F11.5DF93D0C8C1F38E9.29C3B299BE6D7D46@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <5msqnq$pl9$1@opus.anet-stl.com> References: <01bc6d12$891dc600$65a65fa8@nhtp1.hinet.net> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: biceps.gymnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970309; i386 FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42199 Freiheit <richardt@ms1.hinet.net> wrote: > Hi guys! > I tried to install an rpm source package on my FreeBSD > (e.g. rpm -i gimp-0.99.9-src.rpm), however I got the error > message as followed: > cpio: unrecognized option `quiet' complete > Is this really the problem? If yes, where should I modify the source? > Has anyone had experiences using rpm management > for compiling and installing packages on FreeBSD? The cpio in -current I believe supports the quiet option, it is a newer version I believe that was brought in when rpm was (may be wrong). Regardless, it fixes the problem. Just jump in, grab the source and build a copy for yourself. -- Jason Young A-Net Technical Staff