On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:49:09AM +0100, Peter Onion wrote:
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.
They do tend to be found on specifically Slackware libraries of course. However Slackware has been around for a *long* time and so has its use of .tgz files for Slackware package files. A Slackware .tgx *is* a tar'ed and gzipped file, it's just that it's packaged in a specific way and has installation configuration in with the actual program files.