Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] a cold wind bloweth
From: Magnus Stenman (stone@hkust.se)
Date: Mon Jun 07 1999 - 12:38:32 EDT
If you cannot use the RPM, compile and install from the
original tarball.
(you cannot make only an RPM, you always
need to build that from a tarball)
The use of a parallel RPM (or pkg, or whatever) release is
just a good way of "spreading the word to the masses".
The benefits of RPM (or any good package manager) are many,
even for an experienced systems manager, and the fact that
bug reports came because of bad RPMs is just another good
reason to create "official" RPM specs.
/magnus
Roland Schulz wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 08:13:47AM +1200, Simon Buchanan wrote:
> > Harry Zink/Netatalk List wrote:
> > >
> > > > In the case of Linux, I think we should probably be creating
> > > > RPMs, since version skew is so rampant.
> > >
> > > Allow me to second that suggestion.
> > >
> > > Harry
> >
> > Yes please.. this makes it alot easier!!
>
> Easier ... yes ... portable ... NO
>
> There are quite a few distributions out that that don't have rpm and I for
> myself would rather see a normal, ordinary tgz that even works on systems
> that Redhat never has heard of ;) I don't see the big gain in using rpm ...
> and as far as I noticed quite a few of the complaints about one year ago WERE
> about badly configured/built rpms. Go figure ...
>
> CU
>
> Roland Schulz
> rdschulz@abarrach.franken.de
>
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