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Binary Package Formats Compared

Posted by michael on from the one-deb-to-bind-them dept.

jjaimon writes "There is a document on different package formats used in Linux/Unix systems. Worth reading." Another reader sends in this guide to creating Debian packages which seems apropos here.

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  1. 5 years old! by spotter · · Score: 5, Informative

    Joey Hess created that document (at least the first revision) around 1998 IIRC, so it's not so much new news (guessing it's been posted here before, but probably around then as well)

  2. RPMs, an' all. by caluml · · Score: 5, Informative
    How to roll your own RPMs. Very useful. You can open up a package, say postfix, or mozilla, customise the config files for your organisation, and re-make it. Then you can just install at your leisure.

    Best thing about RPMs? GPG signatures built in. Try rpm -K whatever-x.x.x.rpm next time. Second best thing? rpm -Va.

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  3. Re:LINUX needs to tell apps where they live! by leviramsey · · Score: 5, Informative

    RPM's are relocatable (at least most, if not all of the packages Mandrake distributes are; hardcoded directories are against Mdk policy and caught by rpmlint). Just edit your .rpmmacros and set macros like %{bindir}, %{libdir}, etc.

  4. what a day to post this by joey · · Score: 5, Informative

    I (author) am currently enroute to Norway, only found out I was slashdotted in the airport. I don't really understand why they posted it today, and not some time in the past 5+ years.. Anyway, I will respond to anything worth responding to sometime later.

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