[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:51:59PM -0500, David Douthitt scribbled:
>
>> I seem to be somewhat alone in that I *LIKE* the *.lrp packaging;
>> there is only one change I would make: rename the files from *.lrp to
>> *.tgz. This adds the ability to know what the file format is, and
>> allows Windows hosts to decipher the file automatically.
>
>
> Too many package formats use .tgz as their name.
>
> What if we started using bzip2 for our packages and called
> them .tbz? Nobody uses .tbz for _anything_ not even bzip2'd
> tar files.
Would be nice (see my last post), but does the inird archive patch
support that?
>
> I thought RPMs were tar.gz files with their own info in them,
> like every other Linux and BSD package format in existance.
I thought so too, but it they seem to be a cpio archive instead of tar.
I must admit that I hardly know cpio, but I didn't manage to unpack them
using busybox alone
>
>> Debian probably has a similar problem, yet I don't like their dpkg
>> hardly at all.
>
>
> I thought .deb was the same as my thought on RPM above...
Ewald Wasscher
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