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Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)Posted Aug 29, 2008 9:04 UTC (Fri) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld) by vmole Parent article: Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld)
Well RPM version 3 is the LSB standard package format and doesn't carry the Debian-policy baggage, so surely Mozilla should just use that? Built against some suitably ancient distribution to make sure it works everywhere.
The one big black mark against using RPMs for distributing third-party software is that there is no easy way for a user to install the software in their own home directory. You have to be root.
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Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld) Posted Aug 29, 2008 14:59 UTC (Fri) by spot (subscriber, #15640) [Link]
That's not entirely true. You can install to a rpm root in your homedir, it just won't be able to resolve dependencies sanely, and you'd need to add directories to your path.
Bitten by the Red Hat Perl bug (InfoWorld) Posted Sep 8, 2008 20:34 UTC (Mon) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]
Yes... no easy way. And all RPMs, in practice, are built to install into / and nowhere else. It is a shame they are not relocatable.
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