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

[Ignacio Marambio Catán]

On 1/5/07, Darren J Moffat <Darren.Moffat at sun.com> wrote:
> Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote:
> > 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
>
> pkgadd http://example.com/stuff/foobar.pkg
> pkgadd https://example.com/goodstuff/barfoo.pkg
>
> Both already work in pkgadd.

aparently i was not clear enough in my explanaition about urmpi,
urpmi xchat
installs the package xchat from either the cd or a remote package
repository, it will also download and install all the necesary
dependencies. think of pkg-get

nacho