On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 05:11:23PM -0800, Ted Ozolins wrote: >Oh I think there are a lot of refugees from the rpm farm on this list:) I >left rpm behind a while back, been using mainly Slackware and of course >that build_it_yourself_unmentionable_G oops I almost said it distro. What >I enjoy with both of these distro's is that if I find a program (xcircuit >comes to mind) I would like to evaluate, I wont be chasing all over the >internet to satisfy its dependencies, nor will I be (as I was with Caldera) >stopped because of way out-dated libs.
I've been building RPMS for a variety of systems for several years now, and really like the philosophy of building from pristine sources under control of a SPEC file. We're using RPM on Linux, OS X, and SCO OpenServer, and I can generally write spec files that will build on all the platforms we support. I read about the OpenPKG system in SysAdmin magazine late last year. It's an RPM based system developed by Cable and Wireless in Europe to help them maintain a large number of heterogeneous Unix and Linux systems for their ISP operations. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``Nobody wants to be called common people, especially common people.'' Will Rogers _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
