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Re: debian and rpm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Thu Nov 7 18:21:42 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 13:08:16 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <9611071752.AA23163@arctos.Bowdoin.EDU> from "Steve Fisk" at Nov 7, 96 12:52:37 pm
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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'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!)
>
> Perhaps "dpkg" and its associated information should be made into a
> "debian.rpm" package.
I think this is answered in the Debian FAQ. The problem is even with
the FSSTND, distributions still put thigns in different places. I
think the general stance of the Debian team is "we're not gonna do
it"... 'it' being making an rpm to dpkg converter of sorts.
However, I wonder what Red Hat's stance is?
Perhaps a dpkg.rpm.
(Does Debian support relocatable packages?)
At least, with relocatable packages part of the filesystem problems
could be solved by installing Debian pkgs in /opt/debian (or wherever)
and appropriate symlinks.
But, how many packages are there only in Debian package form?
(inlcuding tarballs as another form.) How useful would the work be?
--
-Otto
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