Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 04:16:48PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> >
> > What I would like to see, in the light of LSB, would be that
> >
> > 1) A transparent way to install LSB-compliant rpms in Debian is
> > implemented. Preferably one should be able to install rpms with 'dpkg'
> > command line tool, although an automatic format transform with 'alien'
> > could be performed behind the scenes.
> >
>
> # apt-get install rpm
> # rpm -i --nodeps foo.rpm
>
> > 2) Assuming that I am not misinformed about the functional
> > compatibility of dpkg and rpm, a LONG TERM goal for transforming
> > Debian to rpm base is issued. This would include adding rpm support
> > for all Debian package management tools, and transition tools for the
> > database contents, etc.
> >
>
> Debian is working with a group from RH and elsewhere on a interchangeable
> packaging system, but it is a ways off.
>
at www.gnupdate.org are working for package systems integration without being
oriented towards any specific linux distribution.
> That said the LSB does not _FORCE_ any Linux dist to abandon their own work.
> It simply requires the dist to allow rpms to be installed easily. alien does
> this for most people.
>
> RPM is not inherently bad. RH (and others) simply do not have a common
> standards set that must be followed like Debian does. There are a few places
> where each format (rpm and deb) surpass the other. However most of the
> perceived differences are actually in the _use_ of the system and not a lack of
> features. However, Debian will not just give up on dpkg and no one has told us
> that we must.
>
>
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