Re: Does anybody know of the original motivations to have dpkg and apt.
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2012/2/23 Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 04:19:55AM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Does anybody know the original motivations for having dpkg and the
>> apt. I do remember reading somewhere that Ian Murdock had some issues with rpm
>> (urpmi or whatever it was called circa '93-'94) either with dependency
>> conflict resolution or/and the updates/upgrades.
>
> RPM was originally written in 1997, dpkg was originally written before
> or during 1994, as can be seen in it's changelog.Debian.gz. It's thus
> much older than RPM.
>
> APT was created around 1997 and 1998 as a replacement for dselect. The
> rest can be read in the Wikipedia article, which also contains links
> to the relevant entries in the mailing list.
>
>>
>> My google fu is not good at finding things which are over 10 years old
>> so any help would be appreciated. I want to use the info. for a
>> presentation. The historical reference of dpkg in wikipedia is pretty
>> weak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dpkg#History as it does not delve
>> why they wanted or had to use dpkg . I am not looking for dpkg vs rpm
>> or anything like that but more for understanding the reasons behind
>> it. Also want to use it in a presentation so people are aware of the
>> same.
>
> When dpkg was created, the world of Linux distributions probably had
> just Softlanding Linux System and its descendant Slackware. Dpkg was
> likely the first time packages received any dependency information.
>
> --
> Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member
>
> See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
Julian,
Thank you for clearing that up. Essentially I was under the wrong
impression. Thank you for clearing that point up.
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Regards,
Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल
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