Re: RPM (Was Re: Deity project schedule problems)
> Basically i'm repeating here what i wrote in a posting yesterday:
> There has been quite some discussion about the doubtful merits of RPM
> packages taken from different distributions in the German Linux
> newsgroups. A major local Linux distribution very widespread in
> Germany nameed "S.u.S.E." has switched to RPM with their latest
> release "5.0". Obviously people have serious troubles installing RPM
> packages from Redhat on SuSE and vice versa because of small but
> effective differences in the specific packages which are each tailored
> for a specific Linux system.
we know this. solutions :
a) a problem ! run away : very, very fast !
b) try to fix it. do you think, that suse, delix lst and redhat are
happy with getting tons of bug report from users who cross installed
packages ? i don't think so, so we can talk to them about more
standards.
and don't forget : this is not a new problem.
with alian we have the same problem with cross installing.
and in the area before rpm and deb, people cross installed tgz packages
and had the same problems. and in the area before binary packages,
people compiled and installed source and had the same problem (yes, i
replace sysvinit with my own compiled binary on my old slackware !).
the number of such bugreports/problems increases because there are more
and more linux users. it has nothing (or at least not soo much) to do
with rpm or deb.
lets fix it, find standards and don't run away.
andreas
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