i've been informed that italy has just
launched some really harsh laws for
publishing anything on the internet, such
as paying 200 dollar tax..for any website,
but i can't
verify these claims as i don't read italian.
anyone want to take a shot at it?
http://www.interlex.it/testi/l01_62.htm
Re:I wish they'd all just can rpm and use Debian..
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RPM Package Manager
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i'd have to agree for the most part. i'm having
to do a lot of work with rpm packages and the
rpm source code. i pretty much think it's crap,
and isn't designed well at all. allowing rpm
packagers to VERSION tag their packages with any
arbitrary string, and then trying to logically
parse it to handle dependency resolution is just
fucking stupid IMO.
how does one compare cdalpha3.7p to 0.3.7 ?
that's just one example,
there really isn't ANY way to consistently
perform version comparisons when everyone is
allowed to make up their own rules.
I run into these problems all the times, plus
"circular dependencies" and other such nonsense.
now a lot of people might argue that those are
"packager errors", but a lot of stupid packaging
mistakes could easily be avoided from the outset
with a more well thought out design.
i haven't really looked into debian that much,
but i'm hoping it's a better system.
I loved the OpenBSD partition editor. It's not pretty, and it doesn't need to be. It assumes you know what your doing, (and if you don't you should read the docs) and then it gets the job done.
Maintaining a *BSD is so nice.
FreeBSD ex: cvsup -g/usr/share/examples/stable-supfile cd/usr/src make buildworld && make installworld cd/usr/src/sys/i386/conf /usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL cd../../compile/MYKERNEL make clean && make depend && make && make install
Who can complain when you can rebuild the entire OS and kernel so quickly and easily? Linux can't touch this.
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i've been informed that italy has just
launched some really harsh laws for
publishing anything on the internet, such
as paying 200 dollar tax..for any website,
but i can't
verify these claims as i don't read italian.
anyone want to take a shot at it?
http://www.interlex.it/testi/l01_62.htm
i'd have to agree for the most part. i'm having
to do a lot of work with rpm packages and the
rpm source code. i pretty much think it's crap,
and isn't designed well at all. allowing rpm
packagers to VERSION tag their packages with any
arbitrary string, and then trying to logically
parse it to handle dependency resolution is just
fucking stupid IMO.
how does one compare cdalpha3.7p to 0.3.7 ?
that's just one example,
there really isn't ANY way to consistently
perform version comparisons when everyone is
allowed to make up their own rules.
I run into these problems all the times, plus
"circular dependencies" and other such nonsense.
now a lot of people might argue that those are
"packager errors", but a lot of stupid packaging
mistakes could easily be avoided from the outset
with a more well thought out design.
i haven't really looked into debian that much,
but i'm hoping it's a better system.
--thanny
I loved the OpenBSD partition editor. It's not pretty, and it doesn't need to be. It assumes you know what your doing, (and if you don't you should read the docs) and then it gets the job done.
/usr/share/examples/stable-supfile /usr/src /usr/src/sys/i386/conf ../../compile/MYKERNEL
Maintaining a *BSD is so nice.
FreeBSD ex:
cvsup -g
cd
make buildworld && make installworld
cd
/usr/sbin/config MYKERNEL
cd
make clean && make depend && make && make install
Who can complain when you can rebuild the entire OS and kernel so quickly and easily? Linux can't touch this.