If you want to keep everyone happy I suggest you package it 30 bazillion
ways, .rpm, .deb, .tar.gz, .sh, etc, etc, etc....
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Greg Kettmann wrote:
> I've a couple of questions (as usual), all related. I'm trying to find
> the best way to distribute a package to the greatest number of
> distribtutions. RPM seems to be the best choice but will it work on
> packages other than Red Hat and Mandrake? What exactly are TGZ files?
> I thought they were just compressed archives. This would mean you could
> install them anywhere but since there is no checking for dependencies
> there is no assurance they would run. Are there any other formats? How
> are RH, Turbo, Open and SuSE done? Debian? NetBSD and FreeBSD? I
> would imagine that the two BSD's would be different so probably don't
> really relate but thought I'd ask anyway.
>
> TIA, GGK
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