[olug] rpm2tgz

[Adam Lassek]

Use alien, it has always worked great for me and supports rpms, debs, 
and tgz.

Jon wrote:

>I just used rpm2tgz on the ymessenger rpm from yahoo as a normal user.  The resulting tgz package which I installed as root changed the permissions of my / /usr /usr/bin filesystems.  If anyone uses this program be careful.  I only found out because sendmail refused to work because alias file was unsafe.
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