<snipped> Dear all,
Please CC me when answering or putting something on the thread. When I started using ubuntu and then later Debian one of the first tools I fell in love with was dpkg. Although nowadays we have multiple tools like apt, aptitude, one of the biggest features of dpkg (which is replicated by almost all tools are and were) upgrade, downgrade and hold. I was reading the wikipedia page about Debian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKrafft200531.E2.80.9332_39-0 and it just cites about dpkg being the essential package manager in 1996. >From what I remember most rpm based distributions during that time had rpm broken which means if you upgraded, you couldn't downgrade and there were lots of times when the system broke due to one issue or the other. I was under the impression that due to rpm brokeness Debian and thereafter dpkg came into being. From the wikipedia page it seems the motivation came from SLS - a derivative of Slackware. Could or does somebody remember what discussions took place when dpkg was being put up as an ideal package manager. It still is, in case of breakage or something goes wrong and the other tools can't fix. I am more interested in what sort of scenario was then. I also read that YUM the fedora package manager borrowed lot of ideas and functionality from dpkg but do not know of any authoritative data to backup, only rumors. Could somebody share some info. on that. Looking forward to know more. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com EB80 462B 08E1 A0DE A73A 2C2F 9F3D C7A4 E1C4 D2D8
