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Server: cvs.openpkg.org Name: Thomas Lotterer
Root: /e/openpkg/cvs Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Module: openpkg-web Date: 13-Jan-2003 14:58:22
Branch: HEAD Handle: 2003011313582100
Modified files:
openpkg-web faq.wml
Log:
add why-compress to FAQ
Summary:
Revision Changes Path
1.16 +23 -2 openpkg-web/faq.wml
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Index: openpkg-web/faq.wml
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$ cvs diff -u -r1.15 -r1.16 faq.wml
--- openpkg-web/faq.wml 6 Jan 2003 09:52:59 -0000 1.15
+++ openpkg-web/faq.wml 13 Jan 2003 13:58:21 -0000 1.16
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
packages only.
</faq>
-<faq id=about-logo
+<faq id="about-logo"
title="Is there background information available on the project name and
logo?">
Yes, "OpenPKG" (pronounced "open-pee-kay-chee") is short for "Open
Source Software Packages". And the logo shows a package containing
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
website design.
</faq>
-<faq id=why-rpm
+<faq id="why-rpm"
title="Why is RPM used and not any other packaging tool?">
We evaluated lots of existing software building and packaging
tools like Debian's dpkg/apt pair, the FreeBSD's ports and their
@@ -378,6 +378,27 @@
For the remaining packages, you have to add a patch file
to the package which fixes your particular platform problems.
</ol>
+</faq>
+
+<faq id="why-compress"
+ title="Why does the OpenPKG bootstrap uses %22compress%22 data format?">
+ The "openpkg*src.sh" bootstrap should run on as many platforms as
+ possible. All platforms within the scope of OpenPKG support
+ unpacking of data that comes in "compress" format. This is true for
+ very old but still in production UNIX systems. It is also true for
+ very new LINUX systems which do not have an uncompress tool
+ installed by default but come with a "bunzip" which can unpack
+ "compress" format and is detected and used by the bootstrap. There
+ is no other packed data format with equal availability.
+ <p>
+ When a user creates a "openpkg-*.arch-os-hierarchy.sh" the resulting
+ script should be in "compress" format as well. This was the case in
+ OpenPKG v1.0 and v1.1 and CURRENT until 20030110 and required the
+ availablity of a "compress" tool to the user. As described above,
+ the latest incarnations of LINUX omit that crucial tool and "bzip"
+ cannot create "compress" data format. For this reason we decided to
+ drop support for packing "openpkg-*.arch-os-hierarchy.sh" entirely
+ beginning with CURRENT 20030113 and OpenPKG v1.2.
</faq>
</ol>
@@ .
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