Re: [cobalt-developers] pkg vs rpm

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Todd Cary" <todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My client has rented space on a Cobalt RaQ 4 server.  It is administered
by a
> Web page and in order to install a new program, it has to have a ".pkg"
> extension.  I was told that the RaQ 4 is using a version 6 of RH Linux,
however
> I am not a Linux guru...I know just enough to have created my Apache that
is
> compiled with PHP/Interbase on a RH Linux 7.2 server.
>
> Since I have RH Linux 7.2, is there a way to make a pkg file?  I need to
have
> PHP with Super-Server Interbase 6.01 and the appropriate Apache.  Can this
be
> done?

Technically speaking, you could create a PKG file on a non-Cobalt machine.
A PKG file is just 1 or more RPMs and some scripts tarred and gzipped and
saved with a .pkg extension.  You can get a sample PKG template from
developer.cobalt.com or extract any existing PKG and start with it as a
basis.  But if you don't have root access to the specific RaQ model you plan
to install the PKG on or the underlying RPM(s) and scripts you'll have very
little idea whether the PKG will work or what it will do when it's actually
installed.

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