[NTLUG:Discuss] Bob Young's Statement to Slashdot

[Randall Gibson]

I am not a packager,  so once again, I may be wrong.
	From what I understand, deb's will allow running of scripts before
install to shut down services, and after to re-start them. It also has a
inteligent way of comparing the config files to determine if it needs to
ask you which version of the files you want to keep if they are different. 
I am sure rpm's do some of the same, but I understand that debs do a better
job. 
	Read a review of packaging practices at :
http://www.advogato.org/article/169.html   It doesnt technically support
Debian, but it does say that its packaging system is quite good. 

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 17:13:01 A.L. wrote:
> <snip>
> > If they could get rpm's to be as easy to work with as
> > deb's I wouldnt bother, but you only install once, you have to be able
> to
> > maintain it for a LONG time.
> <snip>
> 
> 	Just out of curosity, as I have seen such things mentioned
> before;
> but what on earth do *.deb's do that *.rpm's don't?  I've been building
> my
> own rpm's for years, and hacking other folks's spec files and such for
> longer than that, and I have never come across anything I wanted to do
> with a packaging system that couldn't be done with rpm's.  I don't know a
> whole lot about *.deb's, but I would be interested to know if there's
> some
> really cool thing or something that they'll do that rpm's won't.  Thanks
> in advance.
> 
> 	--A.L.Lambert
> 
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