On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 20:33:28 -0800 Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. The problem is that RPM limits itself to the package in question. emerge takes the next step and defines the relationship between packages. And, instead of just stopping and saying "something is missing so bugger off and sort that out and don't return until you do", as rpm will do, emerge takes action and gets the missing things. It is the admittance that no package is an island that makes emerge work. There are other problems solved by this approach as well. -- +····························+·······························+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] · · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 · Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · +····························+·······························+ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
