[osol-discuss] rpm vs pkgadd (again!)

Darren J Moffat Darren.Moffat at Sun.COM
Fri Jan 5 08:15:34 PST 2007


UNIX admin wrote:
>> The MRTX pkgs will.
>> However, marTux itself will be rpm based while
>> offering pkgadd
>> compatibility at the same time.
> 
> I believe that your time reengineering / repackaging software in RPM would be better spent formally extending `pkgadd` and friends with features that `rpm` has and `pkgadd` tools don't.

exactly which needed features are those that rpm has that pkgadd does not ?

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Darren J Moffat



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