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

[Ignacio Marambio Catán]

On 1/5/07, Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote:
> 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 ?
>
if youre taking RFE orders... :)
i dont know about rpm, but i would like to see some of the urmi
features integrated, urpmi is a tool from mandriva ( a redhat
derivative) that can be configured to automatically download packages
from the web or the mandrake cd, it behaves much like apt does

nacho