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Re: Can I interest anyone in RPM?

Mark Eichin <eichin@cygnus.com> writes:

> > It looks like the RPM format designers prefer to find complex
> 
> Well, more like they started small and accreted improvements...

IMHO it's OK that they learned that the lead is too limited, and
choose to drop it. Consider that their origins are of the same age as
dpkg's. Debain had an older format too. My major objection is that
they choose this unnecessarily complicated binary format just for
storing the control information. Compared to the control file in
control.tar.gz it's difficult to understand why they choose this
obfuscation method.

> >(BTW: Is there a short summary on the functional changes between the
> >version described in the book and teh current on.)
> 
> There's a changelog of sorts on the www.rpm.org website.

And the entries look like:
2.2.11 to 2.3

   This is mostly an internal cleanup release.
   
     * are memory leaks, but the functions are only used between a fork()
       and exec() so it doesn't matter
     * created directories are stamped with mtime from the file list

10 web pages, about 100 lines or more each ...

This doesn't tell me the major functional changes. At a first glance I
didn't find anything. I suppose that most changes will occurr in the
source packaging.

	Sven
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Sven Rudolph <sr1@inf.tu-dresden.de>
http://www.sax.de/~sr1/


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