On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 09:55:08AM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote: > You're both correct. The RPM format is a modified CPIO archive, > containing a variety of sources and patches, and a spec file.
Yep, by superset I meant superset conceptually, not superset implementation wise. cpio, tar, pax, zip : archive rpm, dpkg, pkg, depot : archive + metainfo + postinstall/preinstall blah blah Regards, Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
