Here's a quick summary of how it works - a full version will replace this real soon now.
A Slackware package is a gzipped tar file rooted at /, so if you
cd /
tar zxvf something.tgz
everything is installed into the correct place. This will also create the
directory /install containing an installation script "doinst.sh". In the
Slackware installation process this script is automatically run and the /install
directory removed. You will need to to this manually with:
. /install/doinst.sh
rm -rf /install
That should do it
If you wanted to make an rpm, create a temporary unpacking diectory (e.g.
/tmp/vvd), cd into that directory and unpack the .tgz file. Now you will
have the installation directory tree inside the temporary driectory. Remove
the contents of /tmp/vvd/install and replace it with whatever rpm uses to
do the same work.
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