Hendrik Visage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:40:10AM -0600, George Kraft IV wrote: >> Hendrik Visage wrote: >> > >> > > > Handling Packages >> > > > >> > > > YES/NO, the applicant's Linux distribution can read and install RPM >> > > > v3 formatted packages. >> > >> > Why are RPMs so emphasized? >> > What about systems (Like Gentoo & Rock Linux and Sorcerer GNU Linux) that >> > do their own package tracking from source files, which doesn't suppor RPMs >> > perse ?? >> > >> >> RPM v3 formatted packages is what is specified by the LSB. RPM based
AFAIK it's actually a subset of RPM that can be easily converted to other package formats. >> distributions can install them with rpm(1), and DEB based distributions can >> install them with alien(1). >> >> http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_1.1.0/gLSB/swinstall.html#PKGFORMAT > > My question rather is: Why does the LSB specify RPM, and not tar.gz?? tar.gz do not contain enough information: - provided features - requirements - ... It's easy to install an RPM on a system that does not use RPM at all, so there's no real problem for you. Just use rpm2cpio and execute the install scripts... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger SuSE Labs [EMAIL PROTECTED] private [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.suse.de/~aj
