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deb vs. rpm vs. gemdeb vs. rpm vs. gemPosted Mar 10, 2004 12:58 UTC (Wed) by crankysysadmin (guest, #19449)In reply to: deb vs. rpm vs. gem by ikm Parent article: Rock Linux 2.0 released I don't think the postfix prevents problems. I have many times gotten RPMs from rpmfind.com that had postfixes for the distro, and they worked (by sheer luck -- this was way before I had any package mgmt clue). Then later I found similar packages I expected to work which required that I change out binx86 and everything higher, or something like that. If you're going to make Yet Another Distro of linux, you need either: 1) Yet Another Packaging System or 2) a packaging system that sits above the distro level and can recognize the distro itself as a dependency. I don't see anyone doing #2 real soon, unless this is a hidden attribute of APT or something. I think the lesson here is, if you don't like #1, stop making so many linux distros.
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deb vs. rpm vs. gem Posted Mar 11, 2004 3:41 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] How about this?3) A build system which sits above the package level and manages dependencies for the distribution. THis is kind of what Gentoo does with Portage. The "packages" themselves are just tarballs; dependencies are tracked by the ebuild scripts for each package, which also take care of details such as patching and building the package.
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