On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Mike Meyer wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:55:53 -0800 (PST) KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Mike Meyer wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:24:36 -0800 (PST) KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Dag-Erling Sm˙˙rgrav wrote:
KAYVEN RIESE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
.rpm is a package format, and comes with a tool set for using it. Most
(all?) GNU/Linux systems come with tools for dealing with it, but they
all also come with tools for dealing with .tgz. Some GNU/Linux distros
use .rpm to distribute their software, but not all do. I don't think
any Unix systems have adopted it; most of them have packaging systems
that predate .rpm, and they're all different. Different package
formats for vendor software isn't a GNU/Linux vs. FreeBSD or Unix
thing, it's a fact of line in a multi-platform Unix environment.
my reason for bringing the whole thing up was based on the idea
that this person might be used to using *.rpm all the time
Well, maybe. But consider the context: they're looking at moving from
GNU/Linux to FreeBSD, so they're probably familiar with more than one
GNU/Linux distro, so there's a good chance they'ev seen more than just
rpms for system software distribution. Further, they're looking at
working on the FreeBSD code base, so they're a programmer, so there's
a good chance they've gone to the source sites for the packages
included in those distros, where they almost certainly would have
noticed that the binaries for other platforms weren't in rpms. Since
they're programmers, they've probably downloaded source distributions,
which are almost invariable tarballs of some sort or another.
In other words, the chances that they've only seen rpm file
distributions would seem to be vanishingly small, so there are things
that are far more likely to disrupt them - like the difference in
which system calls will work properly between fork() and exec() that
Posix() doesn't require to do so - that are still so unlikely to do so
to be worth mentioning in this context.
If you feel you have to mention it, then you should really talk about
the tools, not the formats: GNU/Linux distros tend to use rpm* or apt*
tools for installing and managing software packages, whereas FreeBSD
uses the pkg* tools.
Not necessary to use pkg* tools on FreeBSD. You can use pkgsrc
http://www.pkgsrc.org/
or openpkg
http://www.openpkg.org/
All above are supported on multi-os environment.
Regards,
Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning and Projects
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
Key 70EF9882: DEC2 C685 1ED4 C95A 145F 4300 6F64 7B00 70EF 9882
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