On Thursday 05 October 2006 23:10, Robert Fisher wrote: > On Thursday 05 October 2006 10:53 pm, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > > Sorry to be a bit of a failure over the orgainising of talk subjects, > > > > Don't stress yourself. > > Here here. You have done fine so far Chris. > > > I am not sure whether compiling tar files is a good topic for > > demonstration. There's nothing to see. A thread on the list, or a good > > writeup on the wiki, filled in with more list input, would be adequate. > > How to run rpm & Co is more basic system administration, covered by > > reading $DISTRO's howto-101. > > Quite possibly correct but maybe there is interest. > Maybe we should ask if there is interest. > There have been, after all, recent list discussions which showed a wide gap > between those who know various package management techniques and those who > do not. > > Any comments from others? > > Rob
My other comment is: is there anyone with sufficient knowledge of all the package managers to make a truly informed presentation? apt-deb apt-rpm yum portage ports
