15 Jul
2005
15 Jul
'05
12:50 p.m.
On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 11:14 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
.tgz files can be Slackware packages which are packaged for automatic installation by Slackware's package system. They won't (in that case) include the source for building yourself.
.tgz is to Slackware what .rpm is to Red Hat (and other distributions).
That seems a very stoopid way to do things... I've always considered .tgz to be a short hand for .tar.gz i.e. a tar-ball compressed with gzip... Nothing more.. Nothing less.
I've never come across one that was specific to slackware though.
Peter