Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 12:24:36 -0800 (PST) From: KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> To: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Mike Meyer <mwm-keyword-freebsdhackers2.e313df@mired.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD hacker 101 Message-ID: <Pine.SOC.4.64.0801261222580.7597@libra.sfsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <86hch0pqhl.fsf@ds4.des.no> References: <84a208a0801232306k6a34134aqd549a1ba2160fe41@mail.gmail.com> <4798479B.9030406@delphij.net> <Pine.SOC.4.64.0801241524130.25709@libra.sfsu.edu> <20080124185522.23ca743f@bhuda.mired.org> <864pd15163.fsf@ds4.des.no> <Pine.SOC.4.64.0801251142300.28096@libra.sfsu.edu> <86hch0pqhl.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. ---559023410-851401618-1201379076=:7597 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=utf-8; format=flowed On Sat, 26 Jan 2008, Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav wrote: > KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> writes: >> i don't recognize that as what i said, but i was trying to make the >> point that BSD DOESn't use rpm compression, and that was a point i >> was trying to make in terms of comparison/contrast > > I'm not sure what you mean by "rpm compression", since rpm is not a > compression algorithm but a set of tools and a file format (based on > gzipped cpio archives) used by those tools. gzip is compression. okay it is an archiver. all i know is that standard old boys unix uses *.tgz which is a mix of compression and archiving with tar. i have only encountered rpm sporatically because i have not done a lot of linux, but i know that when you enounter a package to be installed it seemed to me *.rpm is an alternative to *.tgz > > DES > --=20 > Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no > *----------------------------------------------------------* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *----------------------------------------------------------* ---559023410-851401618-1201379076=:7597--
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