Re: [LANdb] help

==> Regarding Re: [LANdb]  help; John Madden <weez@avenir.dhs.org> adds:

weez> What's the point though?  tar.gz is universally accepted, even under
weez> win32.  RPM is for redhat et all users, and anyone who's installed
weez> support for it.  I don't have anything *against* Rpm, I just don't
weez> really see the point; it isn't any sort of complex package or
weez> anything, where a nice pkg format would make things necessarily
weez> *easier.*

just because you offer rpm doesn't mean you can't offer tar.gz as well.  

RPM is actually a pretty sophisticated package management system.  it
includes installation, removal, upgrading, verification, arbitrary scripts
during build/install/removal process.... exactly what features are you
looking for?

weez> tar zxvf landb-x.xx.tar.gz cd LANdb-x.xx ./install.pl

rpm -ivh landb-version.i386.rpm

rpm -e landb to remove it
rpm -Uvh landb-newversion.i386.rpm to upgrade to a new version
rpm -ba landb-version.src.rpm to rebuild from src.rpm
rpm -ta landb-version.tar.gz to rebuild from tar.gz with landb.spec file in
it. 

-- 
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net
Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy
After watching my newly-retired dad spend two weeks learning how to make a new
folder, it became obvious that "intuitive" mostly means "what the writer or
speaker of intuitive likes".
(Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, in comp.os.linux.misc, on X the
intuitiveness of a Mac interface.)

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