Re: debian packages

[Alex Mestiashvili <alex@biotec.tu-dresden.de>]

On 05/11/2011 10:03 AM, Widen-Damian Ivanov wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm planning to install Linux on a mid-amount of computers (for now 30-40) and I'm searching for the right distribution. As I would like to package also some stuff for internal use, so I tried to with fedora and with ubuntu and debian testing. I had no problems at all with fedora, since their packages .srpm contains a directory where I can just change things i a package and rebuild it. I don't know why (may I'm too stupid :( but it was too complex for me) I could't manage it on ubuntu. Also while testing I found 
> I can set a dependency on a file
> one file to control the process of building
> delta RPM's for less bandwith 
> pgp packages
> So is it worth it trying again, since the most wide-spread linux "ubuntu" uses deb, to try again until I get it ? Did I miss something .rpm can not ? 
>
> Thanks in advance
> Viden 
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For mass installation you can look at FAI http://fai-project.org/  , 
supports both debian and redhat and what not ..
for easy start with debian packaging here is a nice tutorial:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2011/05/msg00126.html

Regards,
Alex