On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:37:10AM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Anybody care to shout or cry about any of these?
Aside from large portions of the page just being plain wrong?
Apt was a frontend for the Debian package manager, not slackware.
Comparing Apt and dpkg is kind of like comparing the C compiler with the
linker.
It also seems to me that the author confuses several very different aspects
of package management. Is yum a package manager, since it still uses rpm
for package management. Some goes for apt and dpkg.
Package management involves numerous tasks, which different people seem to
give different priority to. The multiple program solutions (yum/rpm,
apt/dpkg) usually solve these problems in different pieces. It makes more
sense when you break down the problems being addressed:
- Building software from source. Most systems do this in a central place
and distribute the binaries. Gentoo usually has the package manager
user build the software as well.
- Managing installed binary and config files. This involves keeping
multiple packages for overwriting the same files, removing old files
when removing or upgrading a package, and dealing with updating config
files when packages are upgraded. This last part is hard enough it
might deserve its own bullet point.
- Determining dependencies. Figuring out what other packages need to be
installed is needed to have working packages.
- Distribution of package data, including metadata, source, and binaries.
This is usually where package management security is the most concern.
David
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