Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.
- To: Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>
- Cc: Sanjeev Ghane Gupta <ghane@iname.com>, Chris Wagner <wagnerc@plebeian.com>, Jeremy Hansen <jeremy@xxedgexx.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-isp@lists.debian.org, debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Debian vs Red Hat??? I need info.
- From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 14:16:48 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20000518141648.E1982@mors.wiggy.net>
- Mail-followup-to: Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>, Sanjeev Ghane Gupta <ghane@iname.com>, Chris Wagner <wagnerc@plebeian.com>, Jeremy Hansen <jeremy@xxedgexx.com>, debian-user@lists.debian.org, debian-isp@lists.debian.org, debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20000517200800.I455@perlsupport.com>; from chip@valinux.com on Wed, May 17, 2000 at 08:08:00PM -0700
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Previously Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> Actually, from what I've been told, rpm has at least one serious
> technical flaw: The order of execution for pre-install and
> post-install scripts is nonsensical for upgrades.
I wouldn't call it nonsensical, but the way dpkg does it is definitely
more robust. I need to take another close look at how rpm and dpkg
differ in this respect anyway, so if people are interested in the little
details I might be willing to write a little comparison about it..
Wichert.
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