[Gllug] basic rpm problem.

[Vincent AE Scott]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Lee Blackwell wrote:

> That sounds very similar to the Solaris "package" format.  Isn't that how
> many SVR4 package management systems work? Heh, does that mean SlackWare
> is coming over to the "proprietary unix" dark side? ;-)

IIRC, pkgadd is based upon cpio.
well, put it like this, any packaging system, is gonna be based upon a
common archiving format, so on unix, thats either tar, or cpio, or ar if
you really want simplicity.  cant remember what aches and phux use, but
it's probably an ammalgamation of those utils.

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