WTD- your opinion on software distribution pkgs
Richard C. Gaine III
I am looking in to software distribution packages. I would be interested
in hearing from anyone who is using any sort of software distribution
package at their cite. I'd like to know the following:
What is the name of the package you are using?
Where is this package available from?
How many systems are being handled by this package at your cite?
I appreciate any responses. I am in the process of evaluating
possibilities to be used at our cite. Please eMail responses to
rga...@nbcs.rutgers.edu.
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Dave Courtade
Have you looked at Red Hat's RPM. They use it to distribute Linux. See
http://www.redhat.com for more info.
Good Luck,
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Richard C. Gaine III (rga...@nbcs.rutgers.edu) wrote:
: I am looking in to software distribution packages. I would be interested
John Goerzen
On 21 Dec 1996 14:57:21 GMT, Dave Courtade <d...@admin1.amherst.com> wrote:
>Have you looked at Red Hat's RPM. They use it to distribute Linux. See
>http://www.redhat.com for more info.
Far better than RPM is Debian GNU/Linux's package system. (In fact, RPM
lifted many of their ideas from Debian's system.) www.debian.org
Plus Debian's is free.
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Mike Frisch
On 21 Dec 1996 18:45:41 GMT, John Goerzen <jgoe...@complete.org> wrote:
>Far better than RPM is Debian GNU/Linux's package system. (In fact, RPM
>lifted many of their ideas from Debian's system.) www.debian.org
I have very briefly looked at the Debian web site and couldn't find where
I may be able to ftp the package system program. Could you please give
more specific information?
>Plus Debian's is free.
Ummm, so is RedHat's... It would seem odd to me for a company to release
a multi-platform package manager and then try and sell it. For broad
acceptance, it would have to be otherwise it'd fail.
To add my $0.02... The Debian system must be _really_ good to be better
than the RedHat Package Manager. I will not comment further as I have
never seen the Debian package (that says something right there), but I
would like to further investigate the option. I personally find the
RedHat Package Manager to work very well.
Mike.
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John Goerzen
On 22 Dec 1996 07:53:32 GMT, Mike Frisch <mfr...@saturn.tlug.org> wrote:
>I have very briefly looked at the Debian web site and couldn't find where
>I may be able to ftp the package system program. Could you please give
>more specific information?
Hmm, well, it is a collection of a few programs. dselect is the menu
(user) interface to the system. dpkg is the lower-level program, and
dpkg-ftp is a program that can be used to automatically retrieve the desired
files from a FTP site. I do not know if they package it up for non-debian
users or not. I would assume that you could get it for non-debian uses.
Check around in ftp.debian.org/debian/Debian-1.2/binary-i386/base...
>To add my $0.02... The Debian system must be _really_ good to be better
>than the RedHat Package Manager. I will not comment further as I have
It is. It is AWESOME. BTW, it has an "alien package" facility that will
allow it to "adopt" RPMs and install them as Debian packages. I think that
it might be able to do that with Slackware "packages" as well, but I'm not
sure.
>never seen the Debian package (that says something right there), but I
>would like to further investigate the option. I personally find the
>RedHat Package Manager to work very well.
It really is very nice. Especially when you learn what kind of power is
under the hood. Kinda like Linux that way :-)
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