On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:26:09 -0500, Ellery Newcomer wrote: > On 06/24/2010 08:40 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> On 06/24/2010 03:44 PM, Ellery Newcomer wrote: >>> On 06/24/2010 12:09 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >>>> D rpm packages now available >>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html thanks to Jordi Sayol. >>> >>> Also, what about hosting a yum repository? >> >> Is that the thing that allows me to insert a line in the Synaptic >> repositories and then benefit of integration goodies? I'd love >> something like that. >> >> Andrei > > Ummm.. maybe? > > Yum is a package manager built on top of rpm, essentially red hat's > counterpart to apt-get. I think the idea is each version of dmd as an > rpm lives in the yum repository, and as new versions are released, the > yum will semi-automatically upgrade the user's install. > > The nice thing about it is the user doesn't have to go around looking > for the download each time the next release of dmd comes out, although > they do have to initially configure their system. Typically, the > repository host provides a downloadable rpm which performs that action. > > I don't know that it would be particularly useful for synaptic based > linuxen (Andrei, see what you've got me doing?) though. Guess we'd have > to make a synaptic repo too.
Synaptic supports both deb and RPM package repositories. -Lars
