Re: [Fink-devel] Replacing dpkgs

2002-01-21 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 11:25 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > I know it seems unlikely, but Red Hat closed my bug with a patch to > build rpm on MacOSX, with a comment like: > Since Apple is working on this port, we don't need to. > (Not an exact quote, but..) Hmm yes, I noticed Dave Zarzy

Re: [Fink-devel] Replacing dpkgs

2002-01-21 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 11:14 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: > Also, if you consult www.openpackages.org, you will see that that > project > is developing its own format, .ops, and they hope to have conversion > tools > which will take a .ops file and turn it into a .rpm or .deb file. A

Re: [Fink-devel] Replacing dpkgs

2002-01-20 Thread Peter O'Gorman
I know it seems unlikely, but Red Hat closed my bug with a patch to build rpm on MacOSX, with a comment like: Since Apple is working on this port, we don't need to. (Not an exact quote, but..) This is the only info I have, but it does seem strange, cause I'd think that they would have GPL probl

Re: [Fink-devel] Replacing dpkgs

2002-01-20 Thread Bill Bumgarner
Like I said, I have no opinion on the matter... merely throwing out a bit of information from which others can derive the decision. Personally, I don't care what packaging format is used, as long as it works. b.bum ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAI

Re: [Fink-devel] Replacing dpkgs

2002-01-20 Thread Max Horn
At 17:38 Uhr -0500 20.01.2002, Bill Bumgarner wrote: >I saw a conversation go by that mentioned the possibility of using >an alternative to dpkg for package management... > >I have no particular preference but thought I would toss out that >Apple is moving more and more to using RPM internally a

Re: [Fink-devel] Replacing dpkgs

2002-01-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Bill Bumgarner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I saw a conversation go by that mentioned the possibility of using an > alternative to dpkg for package management... > > I have no particular preference but thought I would toss out that Apple is > moving more and more to using RPM internally and th

[Fink-devel] Replacing dpkgs

2002-01-20 Thread Bill Bumgarner
I saw a conversation go by that mentioned the possibility of using an alternative to dpkg for package management... I have no particular preference but thought I would toss out that Apple is moving more and more to using RPM internally and that the OpenPKG project-- a sort of cross platform F