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

rpjday rpjday at mindspring.com
Tue Oct 16 23:55:33 EDT 2001


On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> Jon Carnes wrote:
>
> > 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...
>
>
> Oh no!  This could be like the presidential debates...
> The mandrake advocate will get 3 minutes to respond to the
> redhat advocate and then each of them will get 2 minutes
> to respond to the debian advocate... :-)  Better through
> in someone who advocates tar.gz files too, just to include
> everybody. :-)

or we could have someone explain the RPM way, while the debian person
just sighs loudly and shakes his head ...

rday

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Robert P. J. Day
Eno River Technologies, Durham NC
Unix, Linux and Open Source training


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