[Peeweelinux] Adding Custom RPMS

[Adi Linden]

pwlconfig extracts the rpm files into the .list and .tar files.

Adi

On Fri, 2 May 2003, Correy Edmed wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I would like to get a few more programs working on peeweelinux. Namely 
> sndconfig to configure my sound card and comedi to configure my PCM-3730 
> I/O controller.
> 
> I notice that the "Configure Custom Files" allows you to update single 
> files or add whole directories however this is no good if you want to 
> add an RPM or make install an application.
> 
> I notice that "/Embedded_Build/RPMS" holds all the rpm files for the 
> "Configure file system menu" which somehow have been loaded into a 
> directory "/Embedded_Build/packages". If you enter one of these 
> directories for arguments sake lets use "/Embedded_Build/RPMS/Editors" 
> you would get the following listing:
> ee.list    e.tar    nano.list    nano.tar    vim-ncurses.list    
> vim-ncurses.tar    vim.list    vim.tar
> 
> SO THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION IS -  How do I take an RPM file for eg 
> "sndconfig-0.43-1.i386.rpm" (Redhat 6.2 file) and add it to say the 
> directory /Embedded_Build/packages/Applications_Sound in the format 
> "sndconfig.tar sndconfig.list?
> 
> So that when I launch ./pwlconfig and go into Configure file systems and 
> then enter Applications_Sound I will have the option of selecting sndconfig?
> 
> Would be great if someone could do a HOWTO for this question because it 
> is never dealt with fully in the archives however I would love to be 
> proved wrong.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Correy
> 
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