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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: has anybody used rpm on FreeBSD?
Date: 31 May 1997 12:31:26 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <01bc6d12$891dc600$65a65fa8@nhtp1.hinet.net>,
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?
Why use RPM when you can use the Ports?
rone
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