At 2007-01-06T08:27:30+1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> Having a good deal of first-hand experience with dpkg&Co, I can say that
> dependency resolution works well, handling multiple repositories works
> well
> a source package format is simply non-existant
Depends what you mean. The 'source package' is made up of three files--the
"pristine" tarball from upstream, a description file, and a patch file
containing distribution-specific changes. There is no single file like the
equivalent SRPM but I don't see that it matters.
'apt-get source', with deb-src sources specified in your sources.list will
download (and optionally extract and compile) a package. 'apt-get
build-dep' will install any build-time dependencies of the package you want
to build.
> package verification is cumbersome for package files and non-existant
> after the package is installed
Install time package verification will finally be enabled by default in the
next Debian release (etch). It has been available for a while but
previously you had to make an effort to get it to work (i.e. install and
configure it). Post-installation verification is provided by the optional
debsums package, which merely requires installation and no configuration to
use.
> and searching had some absent feature(s) (have to check my notes here).
What were you missing? It probably exists already.
Cheers,
-mjg
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