Re: Debina Alpha progress.
> Hi Guys,
> I was wondering what is the current status of the Alpha port? Is it
> stable enough for a home pc? I run RH 5.1 on a 533LX and I also have
> metrolink's Metro X server for Alpha. Is there any idea for the final
> release date? One more question.
> What is a .deb and how does it compare to rpm? Thanks alot.
.deb is used for the same in debian, that rpm in RedHat.
The main difference is:
RPM uses some strange format (designed for this only), while .deb uses
commonly available ar format.
If you type ar x <deb package> you will get files:
data.tar.gz - compressed files that the package contains
control.tar.gz - all other things, line description(control),post/pre
install/deinstall scripts (if there are any) etc.
The another difference is that debian has (in my opinion) better handling
of
installing many same-type packages - for example
you may have emacs19 and emacs20 installed in the same time, and
debian will create one symlink emacs to emacs20 for you (of course
you may run update-alternatives to change this), and when you uninstall
emacs20 it will automaticly do symlink to emacs19 back.
Another thing is the instalation method:
RedHat uses "easy to use" chooser to select packages when installing
first time, but i doesn't know how to run it after install (there
only X'based thing etc.). In debian there is "base" installed first time,
then you run dselect ANY time to install/deinstall etc. packages.
You may run dpkg manually too (like rpm -i/rpm -e in RedHat).
Debian is more compact too (you may
install debian/alpha in less that 30MB, Debian/PC in 11MB, but
if you like in could be 2GB too).
>
> Alpha Powered,
> Peter Petrakis
Wojciech Puchar
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