On 1/5/07, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote:
> On 1/5/07, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> UNIX admin wrote:
>> >> The MRTX pkgs will.
>> >> However, marTux itself will be rpm based while
>> >> offering pkgadd
>> >> compatibility at the same time.
>> >
>> > I believe that your time reengineering / repackaging software in RPM
>> would be better spent formally extending `pkgadd` and friends with
>> features that `rpm` has and `pkgadd` tools don't.
>>
>> exactly which needed features are those that rpm has that pkgadd does
>> not ?
>>
> if youre taking RFE orders... :)
> i dont know about rpm, but i would like to see some of the urmi
> features integrated, urpmi is a tool from mandriva ( a redhat
> derivative) that can be configured to automatically download packages
> from the web or the mandrake cd, it behaves much like apt does
pkgadd http://example.com/stuff/foobar.pkg
pkgadd https://example.com/goodstuff/barfoo.pkg
Both already work in pkgadd.
aparently i was not clear enough in my explanaition about urmpi,
urpmi xchat
installs the package xchat from either the cd or a remote package
repository, it will also download and install all the necesary
dependencies. think of pkg-get
nacho
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