On 16 September 2010 20:58, mohit verma <[email protected]> wrote: > when we install any package (like in ubuntu) ,at end the terminal shows > "reading database" . the idea i got by my friend is that package manager > uses this database (like .deb or rpm). > but my question is : everything in linux is a file so it(database or files > that it contains) must be placed somewhere in the filesystem.what is the > difference if i say that package manager accesses nothing but the > filesystem ( obviously a part of it) and database of a system( computer ) is > nothing but the filesystem (part of it ) itself ? > i mean: what differs between these two that imposes us to name them > differently?
The database will probably be in a file (ie. Sleepycat db files), or be made up of several files (IIRC this is like MySql). But I suspect this is not the best mailing list to discuss this - seems more like general Linux systems use, or applications-level development question. Regards, Srdjan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
