[TriLUG] Deb vs. RPM (was Icecast.conf and debian)

[Jon Carnes]

We were hoping to get you for this November meeting.  We have 15 minute 
demo of an new User Interface already lined up to precede the talk.

It would be cool to get you to cover the basics of RPM, how to use Source 
RPMS, and how to roll your own RPM.  Then if we could get another volunteer 
to show the Mandrake way, and maybe a Debian guy to sneer at us all and 
show us the right way to do things...

Jon (steering committee) Carnes

BTW: I love RPM for the basics, but when I go bleeding edge, I am 
definitely a tarball fanatic.
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On Tuesday 16 October 2001 17:31, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> Rev. Christian J Hedemark [chris at yonderway.com] wrote:
> > Tanner writes:
> > > Like I said before, I have no experience with dpkg, but I do
> > > have plenty of experience with RPM (I've been working with
> > > it for about 5 years or so...).  It is always easier in
> > > the long run (and very often, in the short run) to whip up
> > > an rpm spec file for a package (assuming it doesn't come
> > > with one) than to install it by hand.  An rpm spec
> > > file is basically just a build script, an install script,
> > > and a list of files (with some other info, like the name
> > > and version of the package thrown in...).  You have to do
> > > all of that by hand anyway, so why not put it into
> > > a spec file.
> >
> > Are you volunteering to do a talk on RPM?
> >
> > Please?
> >
> > :)
>
> Actually, I did, but I would certainly be more comfortable doing it
> along with someone than by myself...  I talked to Mike about doing
> an RPM talk right before he left for a conference; he said it would
> probably be December's meeting, but he's still out of town right now
> so I'm not sure how much of that conversation made it to you steering
> folks...  =)