Hi! I'm new on the list, sorry if beating a dead horse, or going off-topic.
I'm searching for opinions if dpkg would be useable on non-debian systems for package management. If the answer is yes, what are the bottlenecks of the process of porting? If no, what kind of other system would suffice? I would like to hear about opinions concerning the Righ Way Of Layout as well. Why? We all know how freshly installed unix systems looks like. One thing they badly need is a set of common utilities like sudo, bash, ssh, gcc, gnu make, etc. If there are more than one flavour of unixen to deal with, installing GNU tools like fileutils and textutils seems to be a Good Thing because we will have far less problems because of the altering command line options, and slightly different behaviour. When talking about some six different unix platforms, tens of packages and hundreds of hosts (our site setup), the slackware-style "targz and /install/config.sh" package management doesn't seems to be enough. I am looking for an easily-manageable solution with version numbering, easy upgrade with dependency check, and possibility of clean uninstall. The Righ Way Of Layout Changing every tool on the machine doesn't seems to be a viable option, as there are applications which expect everything in the way as the fresh install done it, and/or bug-compatible with them. I think that the "put everything in /usr/local" approach would be nicer, but /etc/passwd looks a bit silly in /usr/local. I thought that the same layout as the debian filesystem standard rules it but shifted with /usr/local would be a good starting point, with exceptions. I could think of two exceptions so far. one is /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow, the other is the rc files. There are two approaches with them. With the passwd files and the like nothing to do but save the original state somewhere (is it easy with dpkg? I mean the _original_, not the last one). With the rc files I can imagine one rc file on the original place which would start the ones in the new space. I still need some way to completely undo the changes and know which files have been added, modified or deleted on the original fs space. Thank you for your opinions. --- GNU GPL: csak tiszta forrásból -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
