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

[UNIX admin]

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

Third thing that I find ingenious in both `inst` and `swinstall` on HP-UX is hierarchical namespaces: on both IRIX and HP-UX one is able to package software hierarchichally, for example

(on IRIX:)
eoe.sw.bind - "execution only environment.bind" - a "dist"
eoe.sw.bind.sw     - one of the "subsystems"
eoe.sw.bind.man
eoe.sw.bind.hea
eoe.sw.bind.libs
eoe.sw.bind.libs64

(on HP-UX:)
# BIND                  9.3.2-P1_REV=2006.09.27.01 BIND
  BIND.BIND-ENG-A-MAN   9.3.2-P1_REV=2006.09.27.01 BIND man pages
  BIND.BIND-PRG         9.3.2-P1_REV=2006.10.03.01 BIND development files
  BIND.BIND-SERVER      9.3.2-P1_REV=2006.10.03.01 named and related binaries
  BIND.BIND-SHLIBS      9.3.2-P1_REV=2006.10.03.01 BIND shared object libraries
  BIND.BIND-STARTUP     9.3.2-P1_REV=2006.10.03.01 Startup/shutdown scripts
  BIND.BIND-UTILS       9.3.2-P1_REV=2006.10.03.01 named client binaries
 
 
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