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Linux Standard Base 1.1

Posted by michael on from the so-many-to-choose-from dept.

Staili writes: "Zdnet is reporting that The Free Standards Group released version 1.1 of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) as well as the first version of the Linux Internationalization Initiative standard to deal with Linux language barriers."

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  1. Re:Package format by Alan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IIRC .deb doesn't have some of the nice error checking that rpm has, like signing. Also compare files on a system to the originals in an .deb to check for tainted files (though while looking I see that debsums(1) might do the trick.

    Other problems is the PITA it is to do an non-interactive install of debs. One of the biggest bitches I hear about debian is that when doing an initial install, and you've gotten to the part where packages are installing it goes something like this:

    *install*
    *install*
    *install*
    *ask question via debconf*
    *install*
    *install*
    *ask another question*
    *install*
    *install*
    *install*
    *ask same question again*
    *install*
    *install*
    etc...

    Also .deb's inadequate logging is mentioned, as well as keeping the install messages somewhere, or keeping previous versions of a package (what happens when you find out that libfoo is completely b0rked in the latest version, and have to run around searching for a mirror site that hasn't been updated yet. This generally only happens in unstable, but it's still a PITA :)

    There were a couple of other features that .deb didn't have, but I don't recall them right now.

    Some references and info is here though that's a lot more pro-deb than discussing this exact issue, but there's good info there.

    Oh, and before you start flaming, I'm a long time debian user :)