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Re: debian and rpm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Pick)
Thu Nov 7 14:34:29 1996
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 07 Nov 1996 12:52:37 EST."
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Date: Thu, 07 Nov 1996 11:05:10 -0800
From: Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>
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Steve Fisk wrote:
> The concept of package is a great idea. At the moment there appear to
> be two competing versions - debian and redhat. Has any progress been
> made in merging these two approaches, so that there is a generic
> Linux packaging system?
I don't think the two approaches are really mergeable, because if they
were, then there would really only be one Linux distribution.
> I'm asking this because I wanted a piece of software that was only
> packaged under debian, and I don't know how to install it.
> Could someone tell me how to do this? (I don't want the whole
> distribution - just one package!)
There is an option in dpkg (and dpkg-deb) from Debian to just extract the
files from the package. Then you could just put the files in the proper
place and configure it manually. I know it is possible to somehow install
dpkg on a non-debian system, but I don't know the details. Of course,
you'd have to be careful when doing this sort of thing so that you don't
muck up the RedHat package database. It would be better to install under
/usr/local/ .
> Perhaps "dpkg" and its associated information should be made into a
> "debian.rpm" package.
Christoph Lameter has added the ability to convert rpm's to deb's in his
debmake package for Debian. It would be nice to be able to go the
other way.
Cheers,
- Jim
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