Hi Juan.
I am glad you managed to compile your data. I hope you would put it in a nice
chart, and post it somewhere, so we can reference it when we get a similar
question :-) Actually something similar is on the list at the moment :-)
With the packages:
the (big) packagas rpm and deb contain instructions regarding installation
and configuration. And even rebuild instructions for the source packages. The
package manager rpm, urpmi, apt etc... does follow these instructions.
All the packages use md5 and public/private key signitures, so there you go,
they are very hard to forge.
Generally installing and removing the packages is very simple.
Many of the source-based distros utilize a centeral knolidge-base that is
used to ackuire the source tarballs, configure them according to the system's
requirement. From this standpoint, upgrading actually starts by downloading
the new kb, and then a systematic rundown on the new database, to see if
there is anything with newer versions available, then perform the upgrades
...
a, actually i have to go now, lots of ork and stuff
Cheers
Szemir
On February 28, 2004 06:01, Juan Alberto Cirez wrote:
> Thank you so very much to all of you who participated in my little
> survey. Your comments and feedback are much appreciated...
> My next question would be: Given the packaging systems on the main
> distros (Redhat, Debian, Gentoo, Suse, Fodora, Slackware and Mandrake)
> What are the pros and cons of using them(The Packaging scheme) and what
> would take to make "it"(each packaging scheme i.e RPMs, tgz, deb, etc)
> perfect...?
>
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