From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 25 23:24:54 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA13201 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 23:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sendero.i-connect.net (sendero-ppp.i-Connect.Net [206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA13176 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 23:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from shimon@localhost) by sendero.i-connect.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) id XAA09709; Mon, 25 Aug 1997 23:24:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2-alpha [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 23:24:50 -0700 (PDT) Organization: Atlas Telecom From: Simon Shapiro To: david@sparks.net Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, A Joseph Koshy , Alexander Indenbaum , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi david@sparks.net; On 26-Aug-97 you wrote: > On Sun, 24 Aug 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > Are you considering to move to RPM-like package management? > > > > If you mean "RPM-like" in the sense that they'll both be package > > managers, then yes. If you mean RPM specifically then no. > > Out of curiosity, what are the functional limitations/drawbacks of RPM? > Anything we can do to standardize in the free OS world is a GoodThing > IMHO, at least as a goal:) Somehow it is a mess. Dozens of versions (well, 2 or three) out there, not quite compatible with each other. Messy tools. Requires gzillion tools to process. Debian is better already, although essentially the same. When thinking about these archives, do not forget that a boot floppy has to unpack them. If you are not careful, you will end up with 5 floppies boot set. Please do not tell me that cannot happen. It did and does. Simon