[cobalt-users] Re: Is there a PKG for chkrootkit for RAQ4?

[Charlie Summers <charlie@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 5:00 PM -0400 6/12/02, Gerald Waugh is rumored to have typed:

> > > AFAIK there is no pkg,
> > > It is on my list of things to do, maybe the first of next week.
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> rpm -ivh ftp://ftp.raqware.com/pub/RPMS/i386/chkrootkit-0.35-1.i386.rpm

   Um...er...I don't mean to be a wise guy, but why in the _world_ would you
need a .pkg for this? It's mind-numbingly simple to download the source
tarball, unpack it, compile it, and install the darned thing anywhere you
want it. You don't need to be a unix guru, you just need to know how to read
and follow instructions.

   Wow...have we really gotten to the point where we won't even learn how to
install a REALLY simple tarball without someone writing a package to do it
for us, placing it where the PACKAGE CREATOR wants it instead of where we
want it? Go to http://www.chkrootkit.org/ get the latest source tar file,
compile it, and go. It's easy, even if you've never done it before.

   Sheesh. And I thought RPMs were overdoing it...this is getting plain
silly. What's next - a .pkg file to install a perl script?

         Charlie