On Fri, May 22, 1998 at 06:08:09PM +0000, Rev. Joseph Carter wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 1998 at 01:08:11PM -0700, G John Lapeyre wrote: > > > Does the stampede format even SUPPORT dependancies? > > > > > This is readily available from their web site. > > > > SLP Version 2.1 int value of 4. (Production release) > > [..] > > That is gross and at best hard to use by the end users without special > tools. This is the SAME problem rpm has.
In fairness, it looks like just a .tar.gz archive followed by some additional information. So end users can just tar -xzvf the package, which is much cooler than using rpm2cpio _or_ the deb format. (I didn't know until about a month ago that .deb files were just 'ar' archives -- where is this documented?) Mind you, the clever Debian conffile features aren't going to work if you don't have a package manager do the installation. But if you're using a package manager, you don't need rpm2cpio or 'ar' anyway. Have fun, Avery -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
