On Thursday 06 September 2007 13:18:26 Xavier wrote: > What is the advantage of using a pacman package over a tarball ?
That's a valid concern, anyway: I'm using a local mirror, in my local network. I'm fetching standard setups for several users, including different shell and environment settings. Therefore, i have a package, which is a "standard" for all user settings on my servers, which is on a local configured server, and installed once within the server setup scripts (automatically). The servers have a 100 % automated setup, without any interaction. That's why i'm using a pacman package, since - why not using what i have? Why fetching something from http/ftp servers manually, unpack it, if pacman can take care of this. Also, it has md5 checks and similar, so i can be sure the package / tarball gets a proper setup. Also, adding a name to the base install is far easier than having a script, which downloads, checks the sums, checks the extract of the tar etc. etc. -- Yours, Georg (STiAT) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
