On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, David Lang wrote:
> Also for maintaining firewalls I prefer to watch security announcements
> and when software that is running on the firewall has a bug discovered in
> it I prefer to download the source and install the patch immediatly rather
> then wait for someone to do the job and package it up as a RPM. With any
> RPM based system if you ever do an upgrade without useing RPMs it breaks
> the dependancy trace and future RPMs amy not work. Also the RPM dependancy
The obvious answer is "Don't do that"- choosing a package system means
that you should use it.
> tree may cause you problems becouse if you install something that has an
> optional X GUI the RPM will be fairly insistant about needing X installed
> before it will install. you can override this, but at that point I
> seriously question what advanatage you are getting from useing RPMs
The main advantages (in this exact context) as I see them are that it's
easy to do digitally signed packages and system integrity checks, neither
of which are affected by -nodeps and --force :)
(dependency is done by the RPM author, you can always make your own and it
wouldn't be all that difficult to either fool the X dependencies or
wrapper the rpm -i stuff.)
Paul
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