>> >> >From freshmeat page:
>> >> --
>> >> freshmeat RPM repository
>> >> As you might already know, freshmeat tries to keep up with
>> >> the latest software releases and builds RPM packages for
>> >> them. All this work is done by Obituary, feel free to mail him
>> >> questions or comment
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 09:41:58PM -0500, Petra wrote:
> > No, it's just that rpm is prevalent. There are at least 2 or 3 other
> > distributions that use it.
>
> As I understand it, Dpkg and the deb format where "a day late and a
> dollar short" meaning that it hit the masses just a little to la
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Stuart Krivis wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Kevin Traas wrote:
>
> > While I'm still running Debian (for years - and on dozens of machines), I've
> > long considered switching to RedHat for the simple reason that RPM's seem to
> > be more r
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 02:29:51PM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> No, I wasnt saying to convert debian to rpm, I was saying to offer debian
> packages in rpm format so someone with a readhat system could install some
> of them.
>
> Example, Red Hat has no well-configured smail, cnews, nntp, uucp.
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 11:21:28AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> would be interesting is converting Debian packages to rpm's with a .dpm
> extention. Debian's stuff integrates so well and the default
Hmmm -- if the packages aren't interoperable, despite the common format,
what would be the point
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Kevin Traas wrote:
> While I'm still running Debian (for years - and on dozens of machines), I've
> long considered switching to RedHat for the simple reason that RPM's seem to
> be more readily available (leading to the (possibly) mistaken view that
> RedHat is the more preva
>> >From freshmeat page:
>> --
>> freshmeat RPM repository
>> As you might already know, freshmeat tries to keep up with
>> the latest software releases and builds RPM packages for
>> them. All this work is done by Obituary, feel free to mail him
>> questions or comments. A change invented
On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Aria Prima Novianto wrote:
> >From freshmeat page:
> --
> freshmeat RPM repository
> As you might already know, freshmeat tries to keep up with
> the latest software releases and builds RPM packages for
> them. All this work is done by Obituary, feel free to mail him
>
>From freshmeat page:
--
freshmeat RPM repository
As you might already know, freshmeat tries to keep up with
the latest software releases and builds RPM packages for
them. All this work is done by Obituary, feel free to mail him
questions or comments. A change invented with the move
of fres
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