On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 01:50:22PM +0200, Georg Grabler wrote: > 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. >
Oh I see, I wasn't thinking about a setup like this. It might make sense after all :) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
