[Gllug] Red hat 8 subscription

Tethys tet at accucard.com
Wed Jun 4 15:36:53 UTC 2003


"Martin A. Brooks" writes:

>Re. the dpkg via rpm (the tool) debate, I don't think they do the same 
>thing so any comparison is flawed.  rpm does not and cannot cope with 
>package configuration issues.  It dumps files to disk provided it think 
>dependancies have been met - it provides no upgrade path for configuration 
>nor migration for data.

Rubbish. RPM can do all of that with various combinations of %doc, %ghost,
and pre- and post-install scripts.

Tet


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